Category: Visiting Scholar

Galaxy Tutorial with Wolfgang Maier

On July 7th IRTG members and other interested FONDA folks attended a tutorial on the workflow and data analysis platform Galaxy with Wolfgang Maier from the University of Freiburg. The tutorial covered fundamentals of Galaxy, and included hands-on exercises in running, editing, and automating workflows. The tutorial highlighted how feature-rich and widely adopted Galaxy is and inspired many in-depth conversations about sustainability and usability along with thoughtful comparisons between Galaxy and other common workflow systems like Snakemake and NextFlow.

The following day, members of subprojects A2, B1, C1, C3, C2 and A7 met with Wolfgang to discuss potential areas for collaboration going forward.

FONDA Winter Lecture Series Continues into 2026!

On January 20th at 15:00, FONDA will continue our Winter Lecture Series. We will meet at HU-Main Campus, Unter den Linden 6, Room 2249a for three exciting talks by:

  • Laura Koesten – University of Vienna: A Human-Centered Perspective on Data-Centric Sensemaking
  • Gabin An – Korea University: Finding Bugs at Scale: LLM-Based Fault Localization in Real-World Software
  • Karsten Peters-von Gehlen – Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum: Bridging Petabyte-Scale Climate Data and Analysis Workflows with FAIR Digital Objects

The complete schedule can be found here: FONDA Winter Lecture Series and you can also follow the lectures online.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Presentation By Mercator Fellow Caroline Jay

Title: Socio-Technical Resilience in Research Software Engineering

Date: 21.10.2025

Time:11:30-12:30

Location: Humboldt-Kabinett, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin

Abstract:

Software quality is influenced by a multitude of factors, from technical, to organisational, to cultural. This talk uses a ‘resilience engineering’ lens to study this issue. This entails examining what helps research software engineering (RSE) teams – and the codebases they create – to respond well and adapt to changes and threats, which are viewed as inevitable. It will explore the role of the professional identity in supporting resilience within the individual, and examine how resilience may be affected by the professional culture in which someone works.

Bio:

Caroline Jay is a Professor of Computer Science and Head of Engineering Research at the University of Manchester, where she leads the institution’s AI for Research and Digital Infrastructure Strategies. She is qualified as both a Psychologist (BA, CPsychol) and Computer Scientist (MSc, PhD), and undertakes research exploring the relationship between humans and technology. She is Research Director of the Software Sustainability Institute and holds a Mercator Fellowship at Humboldt University of Berlin.