Developers
The current LAMMPS developers are listed below. You can email an individual developer with a question, or reach all of them at developers@lammps.org.
Axel
Steve
Aidan
Richard
Germain
Joel
Jake
James
Meg
Stan
Trung
Current developers
| Name | Affiliation | Areas of expertise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Axel Kohlmeyer | Temple University | akohlmey at gmail.com | OpenMP, library interface, LAMMPS-GUI, GitHub, MatSci forum, code maintenance, testing, releases |
| Steve Plimpton | Sandia National Labs (retired) | sjplimp at gmail.com | original author, MD kernels, parallel algorithms & scalability, code structure and design |
| Aidan Thompson | Sandia National Labs | athomps at sandia.gov | manybody potentials, machine-learned potentials, materials science, statistical mechanics |
| Richard Berger | Los Alamos National Lab | richard.berger at outlook.com | Python, HPC, DevOps |
| Germain Clavier | Laboratoire CIMAP | germain.clavier at unicaen.fr | organic molecules and polymers, mechanical properties, surfaces, integrators, coarse-graining |
| Joel Clemmer | Sandia National Labs | jtclemm at sandia.gov | granular systems, fluid/solid mechanics |
| Jacob R. Gissinger | Stevens Institute of Technology | jgissing at stevens.edu | reactive molecular dynamics, macromolecular systems, type labels |
| James Goff | Sandia National Labs | jmgoff at sandia.gov | machine-learned potentials, QEq solvers, Python |
| Meg McCarthy | Sandia National Labs | megmcca at sandia.gov | metal alloys, microstructure, machine-learned potentials |
| Stan Moore | Sandia National Labs | stamoor at sandia.gov | Kokkos, KSpace solvers, ReaxFF |
| Trung Nguyen | University of Chicago | ndactrung at gmail.com | soft matter, GPU package, DIELECTRIC package, regression testing |
Past developers
- Paul Crozier (Sandia National Labs)
- Mark Stevens (Sandia National Labs)
- Ray Shan (while at Sandia National Labs and Materials Design)
Contributors
LAMMPS includes contributions from hundreds of people. The Contributors page lists package authors who deserve special recognition, the team that designed and tested the original version, and a chronological timeline of who contributed each feature, command, or tool.