Research Software Engineering

Our ambition is to accelerate research impact by developing high-quality software, digital platforms, and data infrastructures that bridge domain science and technical implementation. We enable research to be directly used by industry, policymakers, and the public, ensuring reproducibility, scalability, and long-term value.

We serve as the center of gravity for research software development in the Wind Energy Systems Section, designing and maintaining the software, digital platforms, and data infrastructures that transform scientific research into actionable tools and resources. Our work spans stand-alone applications, web portals, APIs, and shared libraries, but goes beyond development alone: we establish best practices for software engineering, provide technical governance for licensing and sustainability, and ensure tools are user-friendly, reproducible, and scalable. These solutions are developed in partnership with researchers, who lead their dissemination as both open-source and commercial products, maximizing impact across academia and industry.


Disciplines

  • Research Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering and Architecture
  • Data Engineering and Management
  • Cloud and Platform Engineering
  • Open Science and Software Sustainability
  • Technical Governance and Licensing

Competences

  • Scientific web application and API development
  • Platform engineering (cloud, virtualization, CI/CD, containerization)
  • Development of geospatial data tools and standards for wind energy applications
  • Selection and implementation of data formats, standards, and interoperability frameworks
  • Implementation of FAIR data principles and metadata management
  • Software lifecycle management and long-term maintainability
  • Technical governance, licensing, and open-source strategy
  • Integration of research models into scalable software services

Research area & application

  • Development of research software platforms for modeling, analysis, and dissemination 
  • Digital infrastructure for wind energy research and data science 
  • Web-based dissemination of scientific tools to industry and policymakers 
  • Long-term sustainability and valorization of scientific software 
  • Commercialization and licensing strategies for research tools 
  • Integration of AI and emerging technologies into research software 
  • Cross-disciplinary collaboration on digital tools to advance the green transition

Head of Section

Neil Nathaniel Davis

Neil Nathaniel Davis Head of Section Department of Wind and Energy Systems Mobile: +45 93511311

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