deal.II Authors

deal.II is a global project. It is run by a group of principal developers. Former developers with significant contributions in the past who are no longer active, are listed under developers emeriti. A large number of contributors have provided substantial patches over the years. These groups are listed below.

Principal developers

Developers emeriti

  • Denis Davydov
  • Ralf Hartmann, DLR, Germany
  • Guido Kanschat, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • Toby D. Young

Contributors

Many people have contributed to deal.II over the years, many of them very substantial parts of the library. Their work is greatly appreciated: no open source project can survice without a community! The following people (in alphabetical order) have contributed to the library, with many more who have sent in fixes and small enhancements:

  1. Africa, Pasquale
  2. Aggarwal, Ashna
  3. Alexe, Mihai
  4. Allmaras, Moritz
  5. Alrashed, Fahad
  6. Alzetta, Giovanni
  7. Anderson, Michael
  8. Andrej, Julian
  9. Anselmann, Mathias
  10. Appel, Daniel
  11. Araujo Cabarcas, Juan Carlos
  12. Arndt, Daniel
  13. Arora, Rajat
  14. Babbar, Arpit
  15. Baker, Andrew
  16. Bangerth, Wolfgang
  17. Bardelloni, Mauro
  18. Barnafi, Nicolas
  19. Bentley, Alistair
  20. Bergbauer, Maximilian
  21. Bergstrom, Kirana
  22. Bezbaruah, Manaswinee
  23. Bhawsinka, Nistha
  24. Blais, Bruno
  25. Blank, Alexander
  26. Boddu, Vishal
  27. Bonito, Andrea
  28. Borelli, Marco
  29. Brands, Benjamin
  30. Bruna-Rosso, Claire
  31. Bucelli, Michele
  32. Budde, Till
  33. Bürg, Markus
  34. Burnell, John
  35. Bzowski, Krysztof
  36. Cai, Yong-Yong
  37. Calhoun-Lopez, Marcus
  38. Campos, Lucas
  39. Carnes, Brian
  40. Castanon Quiroz, Daniel
  41. Castellanos, David F.
  42. Castelli, Fabian
  43. Cavallini, Nicola
  44. Cazamias, Jordan
  45. Chandrashekar, Praveen
  46. Cheng, Jie
  47. Chen, Huimin
  48. Christopher, Joshua
  49. Christov, Ivan
  50. Chuang, Pi-Yueh
  51. Chueh, Chih-Che
  52. Cinatl, Emma
  53. Clevenger, Thomas C.
  54. Cojean, Terry
  55. Comellas, Ester
  56. Cosburn, Katherine
  57. Cox, Sam
  58. Cui, Cu
  59. Dannberg, Juliane
  60. Das, Sambit
  61. Davis, Andrew
  62. Davydov, Denis
  63. Dejene, Elias
  64. Demo, Nicola
  65. Dev, Chaitanya
  66. developers, Ginkgo
  67. Di Ilio, Giovanni
  68. Dominici, Stefano
  69. Dommaraju, Nivesh
  70. Dong, Brett
  71. Do-Quang, Minh
  72. Drzycimski, Kevin
  73. Dugan, Kevin
  74. El Geitani Nehme, Toni
  75. Emishaw, Luel
  76. Engelhard, Marco
  77. Esser, Patrick
  78. Evgrafov, Anton
  79. Feder, Marco
  80. Fehling, Marc
  81. Fehn, Niklas
  82. Ferdman, Emmanuel
  83. Fernando, Isuru
  84. Fildes, Rebecca
  85. Fink, Andreas
  86. Foucart, Corbin
  87. Fraters, Menno
  88. Friedlein, Johannes
  89. Frohne, Jörg
  90. Fuchs, Anian
  91. Fuchs, Sebastian
  92. Fumagalli, Ivan
  93. Galindo, Andres
  94. Gallyamov, Vadim
  95. Garcia-Sanchez, Daniel
  96. Gassmoeller, Rene
  97. Gedicke, Joscha
  98. Geenen, Thomas
  99. Genet, Martin
  100. Gerault, Melanie
  101. Ghesmati, Arezou
  102. Giuliani, Nicola
  103. Gleeson, Brandon
  104. Glerum, Anne
  105. Goering, Christoph
  106. Goermer, Robin
  107. Goll, Christian
  108. Gonzalez-Pintor, Sebastian
  109. Gopalakrishnan, Krishnakumar
  110. Grayver, Alexander
  111. Grove, Ryan
  112. Gruber, Felix
  113. Guevremont, Olivier
  114. Guignard, Diane
  115. Hamed, Maien
  116. Hanophy, Joshua
  117. Harbour, Logan
  118. Harmon, Jake
  119. Harmon, Michael
  120. Harper, Graham
  121. Hassan, Mohammed
  122. Hayes, Nicole
  123. He, Bang
  124. Heien, Eric
  125. Heiniger, Christoph
  126. Heinz, Johannes
  127. Heister, Timo
  128. Heltai, Luca
  129. Herbst, Michael F.
  130. Hoang, Quang
  131. Hu, Jiuhua
  132. Ilangovan, Dakshina
  133. Imbert-Gerard, Lise-Marie
  134. Imfeld, Samuel
  135. Ingimarson, Sean
  136. Ivannikov, Vladimir
  137. Janssen, Bärbel
  138. Jayadharan, Manu
  139. Jazi, Armin Ghajar
  140. Jia, Pengfei
  141. Jin, Tao
  142. Jin, Xing
  143. Jodlbauer, Daniel
  144. Kaessmair, Stefan
  145. Kajan, Marie
  146. Kammer, Christoph
  147. Kanschat, Guido
  148. Kauffman, Justin
  149. Kayser-Herold, Oliver
  150. Kenchan, Vishal
  151. Kergassner, Andreas
  152. Khattatov, Eldar
  153. Kim, Seungil
  154. Kinnewig, Sebastian
  155. Kirk, Benjamin Shelton
  156. Klewinghaus, Angela
  157. Kligge, Ingo
  158. Knieps, Alexander
  159. Köcher, Uwe
  160. Kokomov, Alex
  161. Kopp, Joachim
  162. Kormann, Katharina
  163. Korous, Lukas
  164. Kosakian, Aslan
  165. Kosik, Adam
  166. Kourakos, Giorgos
  167. Krehel, Oleh
  168. Kremitzki, Kurt
  169. Kronbichler, Martin
  170. Kuberry, Paul
  171. Kumar, Paras
  172. Kumor, Dustin
  173. Kynch, Ross
  174. Ladutenko, Konstantin
  175. Lata, Charu
  176. Lebrun-Grandie, Damien
  177. Lee, Adam
  178. Leicht, Tobias
  179. Lei, Wenyu
  180. Lei, Zhou
  181. Ligneul, Tulio
  182. Li, Yan
  183. Ljungkvist, Karl
  184. Mahadevan, Vijay
  185. Maier, Matthias
  186. Mang, Katrin
  187. Manigrasso, Cataldo
  188. Margenberg, Nils
  189. Markowski, Mae
  190. Martin, Alberto F.
  191. Massing, Andre
  192. Matthews, Jonathan
  193. McBride, Andrew
  194. Meggendorfer, Stefan
  195. Mentler, Mathias
  196. Michoski, Craig
  197. Milicchio, Franco
  198. Miller, Scott
  199. Mobley, Phillip
  200. Mola, Andrea
  201. Morales Miranda, Adriana
  202. Much, Nils
  203. Müller, Helmut
  204. Munch, Peter
  205. Munoz Criollo, Jose Javier
  206. Myhill, Bob
  207. Nauber, Stefan
  208. Nayak, Pratik
  209. Neckels, David
  210. Nikolic, Dragan
  211. Novak, Emily
  212. O'Connor, Justin
  213. Omosebi, Omotayo
  214. Ospina, Santiago
  215. Ozeritskiy, Alexey
  216. Palkar, Vaibhav
  217. Patty, Spencer
  218. Pauen, Judith
  219. Paukner, Daniel
  220. Pauletti, M. Sebastian
  221. Paz, Luz
  222. Pelteret, Jean-Paul
  223. Pereira, Rebecca
  224. Perry-Houts, Jonathan
  225. Peschka, Dirk
  226. Philipp, Jan
  227. Pitt, Jonathan
  228. Pitton, Giuseppe
  229. Porter, Geneva
  230. Posada, Fernando
  231. Potluri, Vachan
  232. Powell, Adam, IV
  233. Pratoori, Raghunandan
  234. Prieto Saavedra, Laura
  235. Prill, Florian
  236. Proell, Sebastian
  237. Puchert, Simon
  238. Puckett, E. Gerry
  239. Putz, Andreas
  240. Qiao, Lei
  241. Qin, Ce
  242. Quezada de Luna, Manuel
  243. Rapson, Michael
  244. Rastak, Reza
  245. Richter, Roland
  246. Richter, Thomas
  247. Rishin, Gennadiy
  248. Robey, Jonathan
  249. Rodriguez, Angel
  250. Rogozin, Oleg
  251. Roman, Jose E.
  252. Romero, Irabiel
  253. Rose, Ian
  254. Roth, Julian
  255. Rudraraju, Shiva
  256. Russell, Matthew
  257. Sabharwal, Mayank
  258. Salgado-Gonzalez, Abner
  259. Salmon, Andrew
  260. Samii, Ali
  261. Sanchez-Vizuet, Tonatiuh
  262. Sartori, Alberto
  263. Schlottke-Lakemper, Michael
  264. Schmidt, Christoph
  265. Schneebeli, Anna
  266. Schneider, David
  267. Schoeder, Svenja
  268. Schoof, Raphael
  269. Schrage, Jan
  270. Schreter, Magdalena
  271. Schulz, Ralf B.
  272. Schussnig, Richard
  273. Schween, Nils
  274. Shahba, Ahmad
  275. Shapero, Daniel
  276. Sharma, Natasha S.
  277. Sheldon, Jason
  278. Shi-Dong, Doug
  279. Shields, Ben
  280. Simon, Konrad
  281. Soldner, Dominic
  282. Sonner, Florian
  283. Sparks, Stephanie
  284. Stadler, Michael
  285. Stark, Sebastian
  286. Stebel, Jan
  287. Steigemann, Martin
  288. Sticko, Simon
  289. Suttmeier, Franz-Theo
  290. Sutton, Oliver
  291. Talavatifard, Habib
  292. Tao, Zhen
  293. Temür, Buğrahan
  294. Tezzele, Marco
  295. Thiele, Jan Philipp
  296. Thompson, Ben
  297. Tian, Jihuan
  298. Tidke, Malhar
  299. Tomas, Ignacio
  300. Trophime, Christophe
  301. Tro, Sara
  302. Turcksin, Bruno
  303. Vanmaele, Ferdinand
  304. Vidal, Antoni
  305. Virk, Kuljit S.
  306. Virtanen, Heikki
  307. Wang, Jiaxin
  308. Wang, Kainan
  309. Wang, Yaqi
  310. Wang, Yuxiang
  311. Wang, Zhuoran
  312. Weber, Ivy
  313. Wei, Xiaoyu
  314. Wells, David
  315. Westerbaan, Peter
  316. Wetterauer, Sven
  317. Weygand, Daniel
  318. White, Joshua
  319. Wichrowski, Michał
  320. Wick, Thomas
  321. Wik, Niklas
  322. Witte, Julius
  323. Wollner, Winnifried
  324. Wülker, Christian
  325. Yang, Ming
  326. Yim, Jaeryun
  327. Young, Toby D.
  328. Yu, Feimi
  329. Yushutin, Vladimir
  330. Zampini, Stefano
  331. Zepeda Aguilar, Mario
  332. Zhang, Jiaqi
  333. Zhang, Wenjuan
  334. Zhao, Liang
  335. Zheng, Victor
  336. Zheng, Weixiong
  337. Zhou, Yuhan
  338. Zingan, Valentin

deal.II draws from some ideas which were first implemented in the predecessor library, DEAL, developed by Guido Kanschat, Franz-Theo Suttmeier, and Roland Becker. It has also benefitted from knowing about DiffPack, a library developed in Norway in the 1990s.