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# Authors

## Principal developers

ASPECT is being developed by a large, collaborative, and inclusive
community. This community is led by a group of *Principal Developers*
who are active in developing code, reviewing code, contributing to
the documentation, helping users on the online forums and in person, and
in many other visible and invisible ways. The current ASPECT principal
developers are:

* Wolfgang Bangerth (Colorado State University, USA)
* Juliane Dannberg (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany)
* Daniel Douglas (Boston College, USA)
* Menno Fraters (University of Graz, Austria)
* Rene Gassmoeller (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany)
* Anne Glerum (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany)
* Timo Heister (Clemson University, USA)
* Bob Myhill (University of Bristol, UK)
* John Naliboff (New Mexico Tech, USA)
* Arushi Saxena (University of California, Davis, USA)
* Cedric Thieulot (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

## Principal developers emeriti

We are grateful to those that have served as Principal Developers of
ASPECT in the past, contributing to the project's code and documentation,
and offering their time to help others:

* Jacky Austermann (Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA; principal developer 2015-2025)


## Community

A complete and growing list of the many authors that have contributed to ASPECT
can be found [in our Github repository](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/graphs/contributors).

**With special contributions to the manual by:** Jacqueline Austermann, Magali Billen, Markus Bürg, Thomas Clevenger, Samuel Cox, William Durkin, Grant Euen, Thomas Geenen, Ryan Grove, Eric Heien, Ludovic Jeanniot, Louise Kellogg, Scott King, Martin Kronbichler, Marine Lasbleis, Haoyuan Li, Shangxin Liu, Hannah Mark, Elvira Mulyukova, Bart Niday, Jonathan Perry-Houts, Elbridge Gerry Puckett, Tahiry Rajaonarison, Fred Richards, Jonathan Robey, Ian Rose, Max Rudolph, Stephanie Sparks, D. Sarah Stamps, Cedric Thieulot, Wanying Wang, Iris van Zelst, Siqi Zhang.

We are grateful for all contributions to ASPECT and its documentation, and
your participation in our community!