# Authors of LAMMPS

The primary LAMMPS developers are at Sandia National Labs and Temple
University:

-   [Steve Plimpton](https://sjplimp.github.io)\_, sjplimp at gmail.com
-   Aidan Thompson, athomps at sandia.gov
-   Stan Moore, stamoor at sandia.gov
-   [Axel Kohlmeyer](https://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/)\_,
    akohlmey at gmail.com
-   Richard Berger, richard.berger at outlook.com

Past developers include Paul Crozier and Mark Stevens, both at Sandia,
and Ray Shan, now at Materials Design.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The [Authors page](https://www.lammps.org/authors.html)\_ of the [LAMMPS
website](https://www.lammps.org)\_ has a comprehensive list of all the
individuals who have contributed code for a new feature or command or
tool to LAMMPS.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following folks deserve special recognition. Many of the packages
they have written are unique for an MD code and LAMMPS would not be as
general-purpose as it is without their expertise and efforts.

-   Metin Aktulga (MSU), REAXFF package for C/C++ version of ReaxFF
-   Mike Brown (Intel), GPU and INTEL packages
-   Colin Denniston (U Western Ontario), LATBOLTZ package
-   Georg Ganzenmuller (EMI), MACHDYN and SPH packages
-   Andres Jaramillo-Botero (Caltech), EFF package for electron force
    field
-   Reese Jones (Sandia) and colleagues, ATC package for atom/continuum
    coupling
-   Christoph Kloss (DCS Computing), LIGGGHTS code for granular
    materials, built on top of LAMMPS
-   Rudra Mukherjee (JPL), POEMS package for articulated rigid body
    motion
-   Trung Ngyuen (U Chicago), GPU, RIGID, BODY, and DIELECTRIC packages
-   Mike Parks (Sandia), PERI package for Peridynamics
-   Roy Pollock (LLNL), Ewald and PPPM solvers
-   Julien Tranchida (CEA Cadarache), SPIN package
-   Christian Trott (Sandia), CUDA and KOKKOS packages
-   Ilya Valuev (JIHT), AWPMD package for wave packet MD
-   Greg Wagner (Northwestern U), MEAM package for MEAM potential

------------------------------------------------------------------------

As discussed on the [History
page](https://www.lammps.org/history.html)\_ of the website, LAMMPS
originated as a cooperative project between DOE labs and industrial
partners. Folks involved in the design and testing of the original
version of LAMMPS were the following:

-   John Carpenter (Mayo Clinic, formerly at Cray Research)
-   Terry Stouch (Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, formerly at Bristol Myers
    Squibb)
-   Steve Lustig (Dupont)
-   Jim Belak and Roy Pollock (LLNL)