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tags: OpenDreamKit, Final Review
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# Future of our temporary personnel

### Paris Sud
-  Erik Bray (RSE): temporarilly rehired at LRI, partially to work on SageMath; seeking to rehire permanently
-  Odile Bénassy: will keep working on Jupyter & Sage while ODK indirect costs allow for it; then move back to her original position at PSud?

### Ghent
- Jeroen Demeyer (RSE): left for industry, now working as software developer for Be-Mobile.

### FAU
- Tom Wiesing: moved to another project (funded by DFG - German Research Agency) at FAU?
- Katja Bercic: temporarily employed by FAU for Research Data Management
- Florian Rabe: University research and teaching position (4 years)

all positions are temporary.

### TU Kaiserslautern
-  Alex Best: grad student at Boston University
- Alexander Kruppa
- Anders Nedergaard Jensen: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Remi Imbach: Postdoc, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
-  Daniel Schultz: Postdoc TU Kaiserslautern, DFG SFB/TRR 195

### European XFEL / Southampton

-  Dr Marijan Beg, moved onto [EPSRC research project](https://www.skyrmions.ac.uk)

### UGA
- A Breust: Hired (permanent position) at Mathworks Inc. Grenoble
- Hongguang Zhu: currently applying for RSE in various research projects

### Warwick
- Chris Brady, permanent [RSE position at University of Warwick](https://warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp/sc/rse/)
- Heather Ratcliffe, permanent [RSE position at University of Warwick](https://warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp/sc/rse/)

### Logilab
- Jérôme Benoit, https://www.rezozer.net/
- Julian Rüth, *working freelance on various open source projects* including [flatsurf](https://github.com/flatsurf) with Alex Eskin and Vincent Delecroix

### Oxford
-  Dmitrii Pasechnik, permanent %15 fte (sic!) teaching position, also 6-month 50% fte RSE at St. Andrews (till March 2020). ~~Most probably relocating to an overseas full-time research professorship or a similar academic job next academic year.~~ Since May 2020, a fixed-term lecturer at Oxford CS department.
- Overall, the attitude akin to 20+ years old

 from a paper [Acknowledgment](https://doi.org/10.1006/eujc.1993.0086) still persist in Oxford

### St. Andrews
 - Alex Konovalov - became permanent staff (Lecturer)
 - Markus Pfeiffer - left for industry (https://www.arangodb.com/)
 - Michael Torpey - became an Associate Lecturer on a 3-year temporary contract

### Leeds/Sheffield
 The site got completely wiped off academically, with 100% of the personnel leaving for industry (Amazon, NAG, Microsoft). Although [one person](https://inverseprobability.com/) is now back, as a professor at Cambridge.
 AlexK: actually, those researchers who were at the start of ODK left a large legacy, establishing the RSE group there - see https://opendreamkit.org/2018/10/29/ODK-RSE/. The RSE Group in Sheffield is one of the leading in the UK.
 
### CNRS
  - ![](http://faberresidency.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Vincent-Klein-FaberResidency.jpg =125x250) Vincent Klein; currently unemployed

### University of Silesia

 - ![](https://www.smcebi.us.edu.pl/images/key_researchers/kr_jerzy_luczka.png =125x125) Jerzy Łuczka 25%, currently professor at University of Silesia 
 - Jan Aksamit †05.07.2017; 50% employment for 2 years
 - ![](https://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/media/mathematik/mitarbeiter/algebra_1/2018_10_15/Marzec_Close_Up_3-4.jpg =90x) Jolanta Marzec, postdoc at University of Darmstadt
 - ![](https://cubeproject.pl/images/me.jpg =90x) Artur Trzęsiok, currently works at Future Processing, continues development of 3d software