The development of the DFTB+ package started 2004 at the University of Paderborn and was continued later as a joint project between the University of Bremen (Germany) and the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). Since 2017, DFTB+ is now an open source project.
The DFTB+ development is being lead and coordinated by:
- Bálint Aradi (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Ben Hourahine (University of Strathclyde, UK)
The following people (in alphabetic order by their family names) have contributed to DFTB+ :
- Cristopher Camacho (University of Costa Rica)
- Caterina Cevallos-Brenes (University of Costa Rica)
- Adriel Garcia Dominguez (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany)
- Thomas Niehaus (University of Lyon, France)
- Alessandro Pecchia (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
- Gabriele Penazzi (formerly University of Bremen Germany (till 2016), now QuantumWise A/S, Denmark)
- Jan Řezáč (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Czech Republic)
- Michael Sternberg (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
- Frank Stuckenberg (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Victor Yu (Duke University, USA)