License and authors

License

License

ECOGEN is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ECOGEN is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details http://www.gnu.org/licenses.

Project leadership

This project is led by a dedicated team of researchers, maintainers and developers:

Authors

ECOGEN is the legal property of its developers, whose names are listed in the copyright file included with the source distribution. Contributors’ names for version 6.0 are listed below (from first to last to join) with their respective institutions at the time of contributions:

  • Fabien Petitpas, Aix-Marseille Université (2014-Present).

  • Sébastien Le Martelot, on personal time (2014).

  • Kevin Schmidmayer, Aix-Marseille Université (2015-2017 + 2020-2022), Caltech (2017-2020), Inria Bordeaux + Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (2022-Present).

  • Eric Daniel, Aix-Marseille Université (2015-Present).

  • Benedikt Dorschner, Caltech (2018-2019).

  • Joris Caze, Aix-Marseille Université + CNES (2020-2023).

  • Fatima Gadiri, Aix-Marseille Université (2021).

  • Nicolas Favrie, Aix-Marseille Université (2022 + 2025-Present).

  • Solène Schropff, Aix-Marseille Université (2023-2024).

  • Adedotun Ade-Onojobi, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (2023 + 2025-Present), Inria Bordeaux (2025-Present).

  • Algiane Froehly, Inria Bordeaux (2024-Present).

  • Quentin Didierlaurent, Aix-Marseille Université (2024-Present).

  • Lucas Martin de Fourchambault, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour + Inria Bordeaux (2024-2025), Aix-Marseille Université + Inria Bordeaux + Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour + CEA Gramat (2026-Present).

  • Felice Edoardo Taglialatela, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli + Inria Bordeaux + Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (2025-Present).

ECOGEN is a free software: You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ECOGEN is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details available at the following address: http://www.gnu.org/licenses.

Acknowledgments

People

A special thanks is addressed to

  • Tim Colonius (Caltech)

for his advising and fundings through ONR (Office of Naval Research) grants.

They helped to improve the ECOGEN software through their valuable feedbacks and suggestions (institutions at the time of contributions in parentheses):

  • Luc Biasiori-Poulanges (ISAE-ENSMA + ETH Zürich),

  • Spencer Bryngelson (Caltech),

  • Theresa Trummler (Technical University of Munich),

  • Mathieu Brasseur (Aix-Marseille Université),

  • Guillaume Bokman (ETH Zürich + Imperial College London),

  • Vincent Perrier (Inria Bordeaux),

  • Maxime Reynaud (CEA Gramat),

  • Fabian Denner (Polytechnique Montréal),

  • Carole Delenne (Aix-Marseille Université),

  • Thomas Heuzé (École nationale d’ingénieurs de Brest),

  • Rémi Manceau (CNRS + Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour + Inria Bordeaux),

  • Yifeng Yang (University College London).

They also contributed to the evolution of the ECOGEN software through their scholar internships:

  • Pierre Cottigny (AMU),

  • Titouan Bonnaure (AMU),

  • Paul Jeanney (AMU),

  • Adrien Besse (AMU),

  • Estefani Cardoso Aires (AMU),

  • Guillaume Chavet (AMU).

Financial support

They have supported the development of ECOGEN over the years, listed below in chronological order of their first contribution:

  • AMU - Aix-Marseille Université (France),

  • Caltech - California Institute of Technology (USA),

  • ONR - Office of Naval Research (USA),

  • SNSF - Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland),

  • CNES - Centre national d’études spatiales (France),

  • ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche (France),

  • Inria Bordeaux - Centre Inria de l’université de Bordeaux (France),

  • UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France),

  • DGA - Direction générale de l’Armement (France),

  • CEA Gramat - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives de Gramat (France),

  • UniCampania - Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy).