Authors and Credits
PlasmaPy Coordinating Committee
PlasmaPy contributors
The people in the following list have contributed to PlasmaPy. Included in parentheses are ORCID author identifiers.
Michael Fischer
Silvina Guidoni (0000-0003-1439-4218)
Jakub Polak
This list contains contributors to PlasmaPy’s core package and vision statement, including a few people who do not show up as PlasmaPy contributors on GitHub. If you made a contribution to PlasmaPy that was merged and your name is missing from the list, your information is incorrect, or you do not wish to be listed, then please submit a pull request.
Acknowledgements
The PlasmaPy community thanks the SunPy and Astropy communities for inspiring this project in the first place, providing much helpful advice, and showing examples of how to build a community-wide open source scientific software package. The PlasmaPy community also thanks BaPSF, The Carpentries, CRANE, Fair4Fusion, MagNetUS, OLUG, OMFIT, Pathways to Fusion, Open Astronomy pyOpenSci, the Python in Heliophysics Community, the SULI program at PPPL, and US-RSE.
Early development on PlasmaPy was partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through grant DE-SC0016363 that was funded through the NSF-DOE Partnership on Basic Plasma Science and Engineering; a Scholarly Studies grant awarded by the Smithsonian Institution; Google Summer of Code; and NASA Heliophysics Data Environment Enhancements (HDEE) grant 80NSSC20K0174. PlasmaPy development from October 2019 to September 2025 was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) through grants 1931388, 1931393, 1931429, and 1931435 that were awarded via a collaborative proposal submitted to NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program. PlasmaPy infrastructure and maintenance from August 2025 through July 2028 for two person-months per year is supported by NASA Heliophysics Tools and Methods grant 80NSSC25K0360 to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
All opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of any of the funding agencies or organizations that have supported PlasmaPy development.