Astropy Team

The Astropy project is made possible through the efforts of community members that perform numerous important roles. This encompasses a broad scope of responsibilities ranging from direct package development to communication, distribution, and managerial activities. In this section we list the identified project roles and responsible parties, to provide members with a point-of-contact for individual tasks and to give the project an overview of the current state of the team. Different roles on this page have very different scope and effort needed to perform them. Listing on this page is also not mean to be any particular assignment of credit beyond that implict in having the responsibilities of the role. See the Astropy project role responsibilities section below for a full description of each role.
We are always looking for interested community members to fill empty roles and to join existing teams. Community members may volunteer or nominate someone else for any role by emailing coordinators@astropy.org or by getting in touch with the current team.
Person/People (last name alphabetical)
The Astropy project is made possible through the efforts of community members that perform numerous important roles. This encompasses a broad scope of responsibilities ranging from direct package development to communication, distribution, and managerial activities. In this section we list the responsibilities for each of the identified project roles. The list of people fulfilling these roles is found in the Roles section. Committee/Team specific policies and communication methods are outlined in the Astropy Policies readme document.
The Voting Members are the group of trusted individuals who operate the Astropy Project on behalf of the community. Their role and responsibilites are defined in The Astropy Project Governance Charter (APE 0).
Benjamin Alan Weaver
Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez
The Astropy Project is made possible through the hard work of hundreds of people in the community. Contributions take many forms, from participating in online forums, being an Astropy sub-committee member, giving talks, writing tutorials and documentation, writing code, making releases, organizing conferences, and much much more.
In this page we specially recognize the people and organizations that have made significant contributions to the Astropy project. This comes in the form of Lifetime Contributors and Institutional Support that provides both direct and indirect funding for Astropy.
Here we list individuals who estimate they have spent 2000 hours or more, equivalent to full time for a year, working on and contributing to the Astropy Project. These individuals have demonstrated a long-term commitment to the project in many areas and exemplify the high standards we seek to achieve.
Together with others, Adam initiated development of the astroquery andregions packages, and continued maintaining or contributing to bothsince. He developed the fft part of the convolution package andmaintained it since. Adam played small roles in a number of other areas,but particularly recently in outreach to the radio community by creatingtools (spectral-cube, etc.) that link radio data to astropy.
Adrian is the lead coordinator and developer behind the Learn Astropy and Astropy tutorials initiatives. He was an initial contributor of theconcept and code for the Quantity class in astropy.units and serves aslead developer of astropy.coordinates. In the latter role he was a keyplayer in adding support for velocity data such as proper motions in astropy.coordinates.
Since coming to the project in 2014, Brigitta has been an active and valued member of the Astropy community in many key roles. Most notably, she has been the lead developer and maintains responsibility for critical parts of the Astropy infrastructure which keep the core package and affiliated packages running smoothly for both testing and release distribution. She is an astropy core release manager and the GSoC coordinator for Astropy.
Erik has played a key leadership and technical role in the Astropy project since it began in 2011. His contributions include writing large parts of the core coordinates and uncertainties packages, serving in the Coordination Committee since 2011, serving as a release manager and a number of infrastructure roles, providing leadership on writing the Astropy papers and proposals, and Finance committee work.
Kelle has been on the Coordination Committee since 2016 with a focus on community management, user discussion forums, workshops, and expanding educational materials. Her role as the Learn Coordinator has been especially impacting. She has played a crucial lead role in the areas of governance, fundraising, and grant writing as Astropy has grown into a large and widely recognized project.
Larry has been involved in the project since the fall of 2013. Since 2014, he has served as the lead developer and maintainer of the Photutils package, an Astropy coordinated package for source detection, photometry, and related tools. He is also a developer and maintainer of the Astropy visualization, stats, and convolution packages and the Regions coordinated package. Larry has also served as an instructor at Astropy workshops since 2016.
Madison was a founding member of the Astropy project and was the main developer of the io.fits core subpackage which forms the basis of much of the I/O for astropy. After taking a hiatus from Astropy in 2016 for another opportunity, Madison rejoined in the role of DevOps and Operations Support in 2020.
Marten has been actively involved in astropy core development since 2013. He has made many key contributions, most notably leading the effort to make Quantities truly useful throughout astropy by working with and contributing to numpy to ensure interaction with numpy functions became seemless, and optimizing their use inside coordinates. He led the development of algorithm improvements in the Time class to ensure accuracy at the leve