[Jobs] Postdoctoral Scholar – Sustainable Software and Reproducible Research

[Leora Lawton]

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From: *Daniel S. Katz* <dskatz at illinois.edu <mailto:dskatz at illinois.edu>>
Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:06 AM
Subject: Postdoctoral Scholar – Sustainable Software and Reproducible
Research
To:


Hi,

I’m sending this to a few people who might be able to think of candidates
for this postdoc, either through students you know or faculty you know who
might have students graduating soon.

If you can help forward it around, or suggest to me people we should be
going after, I would appreciate it.


The rOpenSci project based at the University of California, Berkeley seeks
to hire a postdoctoral scholar to work on the research activities funded by
the grant titled “Fostering the next generation of sustainable software and
reproducible research practices in the scientific community”. The project
develops open source software to promote reproducible research practices in
the scientific community. The postdoctoral scholar will focus on a research
topic aligned with their own interests in order to better understand and
improve scientific software practices. Possible topics include but are not
limited to:
• Defining & evaluating sustainability for research software
• Improving the development process that leads to new, sustainable,
reusable, and impactful software
• Developing recommendations for the support and maintenance of existing
software: engineering best practices, transparency, governance, business
and sustainability
• Building large and engaged user communities
• Understanding and recommending policy changes to software credit,
attribution, incentive, and reward; issues related to multiple
organizations and multiple countries, such as intellectual property,
licensing, and mechanisms and venues for publishing software, and the role
of publishers
• Improving education and training
• Studying careers and profession institutional changes to support
sustainable software such as promotion and tenure metrics, job categories
and career paths

See http://ropensci.org/blog/blog/2016/09/07/postdoc-position <
http://ropensci.org/blog/blog/2016/09/07/postdoc-position> for more
information.


Thanks,
Dan
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