# Contributors

The following individuals have made significant contributions to the CADET-Core software and are listed in *chronological order*. Together they form the "CADET-Core authors" as mentioned in the copyright statements and [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.txt) file.

Major additions or modifications to CADET-Core are explicitly documented here.

## Special thanks to everyone who has helped with this project

* [Eric von Lieres](https://github.com/lieres) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, - Germany): Supervision, concepts, first MATLAB implementation, user interface design
* Joel Andersson (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany): Domain decomposition (GRM), linear solver (GRM), first C implementation
* Sebastian Schnittert (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany): First C++ implementation, first Matlab interface, first file format
* Andreas Püttmann (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany): Parameter sensitivities, Jacobians via AD, AD techniques (block- & band-compression)
* [Samuel Leweke](https://github.com/sleweke) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany): Complete rewrite of v3.0 from scratch, build system, code & framework design and architecture, Matlab interface, file format, frontends (MEX, CLI), domain decomposition (multi-unit systems), reactions, 2D general rate model (paid by GE Healthcare), multiple particle types (paid by GE Healthcare)
* [William Heymann](https://github.com/immudzen) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany): Networks of unit operations, compiler flag optimization
* [Salah Azzouzi](https://github.com/azzouzis)(Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany)
* [Johannes Schmölder](https://github.com/schmoelder) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany)
* [Jayghosh Rao](https://github.com/jayghoshter) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany)
* [Jazib Hassan](https://github.com/jazib-hassan-juelich) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany)
* [Jan Michael Breuer](https://github.com/jbreue16) (University of Cologne, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Cologne, Germany and Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany): Spatial DG discretizations (LRM, LRMP, GRM), Crystallization module
* [Ronald Jäpel](https://github.com/ronald-jaepel) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany)
* [Hannah Lanzrath](https://github.com/hannahlanzrath) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany)
* [Antonia Berger](https://github.com/AntoniaBerger) (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Juelich, Germany)
* [Wendi Zhang](https://github.com/WFlynnZ) (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Troy, New York, USA): Crystallization module

## Funding Acknowledgement

* GE Healthcare sponsored the development of core-shell beads, multiple particle types, and 2D general rate model.
* Bayer AG contributed to bug fixes, initial C API, initial Python frontend.
* Johannes Schmölder has received support from the IMI2/ EU/EFPIA joint undertaking Inno4Vac (grant no. 101007799).
* Jan Michael Breuer has received funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 548805630.