Core team
ESPResSo is mainly developed and maintained at the Institute for Computational Physics (ICP) at Stuttgart University, Germany.
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| Christian Holm | Axel Arnold | Olaf Lenz | Stefan Kesselheim |
| Project leader | Core developer | Maintainer, Core developer | Core developer |
Until 2010, ESPResSo was maintained and developed mainly at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, in the group of Prof. Dr. Kurt Kremer.
Former core developers: Bernward Mann († 2006), Christoph Junghans (inactive), Hans-Jörg Limbach (inactive), Torsten Stühn (inactive)
Contributors (in alphabetical order)
Adolfo Poma, Alexander Schlaich, Arjit Maitra, Ben Reynwar (formerly: Reynolds), Christoph Schneider, Dmitro Galperin, Dmytro Antypov, Dominic Röhm, Florian Fahrenberger (formerly: Rühle), Florian Weik, Florian Häußermann, Francesca Lugli, Frank Mühlbach, Georg Rempfer, Gizem Inci, Gregoria Illya, Igor Pasichny, Ira Cooke, Joan Josep Cerdà, Jon Halverson, Kai Grass, Kai Kratzer, Karen Johnston, Konrad Breitsprecher, Marcello Sega, Matej Praprotnik, Mehmet Sayar, Mehmet Süzen, Mingyang Hu, Muhammad Anwar, Nils Binz, Owen Hickey, Pedro Sanchez, Peter Kosovan, Rudolf Weeber, Sandeep Tyagi, Sathish K. Sukumaran, Sela Samin, Shervin Raafatnia, Simon Poblete, Thomas Spura, Timo Schürg, Tobias Richter, Tristan Bereau, Ulf Schiller, Vagelis Harmandaris, Vincent Ballenegger, Vladimir Lobaskin, Zunjing Wang
… and all people that we have forgotten in the list above.
Special thanks
Special thanks to Henrik Skov Midtiby for providing a GPL version of todonotes.sty.






