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Yade core developers

Listed in the order of joining the project.

Janek Kozicki 2, PhD From: Gdansk University of Technology, Civil Engineering Department, L3S Focus: core yade development and design Also: Lattice Geometrical Model, documentation, website, releases, mailing lists	Bruno Chareyre 2, Assistant professor From: Lab 3S - INP Grenoble Focus: DEM modelling in geomechanics, micromechanics of granular materials Also: Quasi-static behaviour, shear tests, simulation of full scale geotechnical problems
Vaclav Smilauer 2, PhD student From: L3S UJF Grenoble, CVUT Prague Departement of Structural Mechanics PhD Focus: Discrete modelling of concrete impact Also: modellling with tetrahedra, framework cleanup, build system	Vincent Richefeu 2, Assistant professor From: L3S UJF Grenoble Focus: Micromechanics of wet granular materials Also: Multi-physics

Yade package developers

Jerome Duriez 2, PhD student From: Lab 3S - INP Grenoble Focus: ? Also: ?	Sergei Dorofeenko 2, PhD From: IPCP RAS, Chernogolovka Focus: ? Also: ?
Jean-François Jerier 2, PhD student From: Lab 3S - INP Grenoble Focus: ? Also: ?

Founders

Frédéric Victor Donzé, Professor From: University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble Contribution: author of SDEC (Yade is SDEC's reincarnation), gave us formulation of DEM, lots of great ideas and constructive criticism,	Olivier Galizzi, 2 retired PhD student From: EVASION / GRAVIR - IMAG, Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics in Grenoble Contribution: Started yade project, QT, openGL, plugin handling, documentation, then abadoned yade.
Janek Kozicki 2, PhD From: GUT Civil Engineering, L3S Contribution: Started yade project with Olivier, C++ design, multimethods, maintaining the project

Benefactors

Félix Darve, Professor From: Lab 3S - INP Grenoble Contribution: provided funding for our project from various european research programs

François Faure, Assistant professor From: University Joseph Fourier, INRIA, Grenoble Contribution: Promoter of Olivier Galizzi's PhD, comments about C++ design

Contributors

Listed in the order of contributing the code.

Jean-Patrick Plassiard Contribution: Started DEM with local moment rotation law in 3D	Emmanuel Frangin Contribution: FEM tetrahedron element
Andreas Plesch About: Interested in quantitative analysis in structural geology From: Research Associate at the Structural Geology and Earth Resources Group in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Contribution: SDECMovingWall filegenerator, valuable comments that were added to current documentation	Luc Scholtes Contribution: Model of capillary forces in granular materials in partial saturation.

Our supporters

• Artur Czechowski 2 ─ debian package maintainer.
• Basia Kozicka ─ checks and proofreads documentation.