The CP2K Foundation is an association that was founded in Zürich on November 30, 2015 by Jürg Hutter, Joost VandeVondele, and Ole Schütt.

The purpose of the CP2K Foundation is to promote the CP2K software project and to protect its open nature.

The inner workings of the foundation are governed by its statutes .

For questions please send an email to foundation@cp2k.org.

The CP2K Foundation can be joined by all natural or legal persons, who support its cause. Current members are:

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  Computational Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Jürg Hutter)

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  Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl)

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  Multiscale Materials Modelling (Dr. Matthias Krack)

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  Center for Advanced System Understanding (Prof. Dr. Thomas D. Kühne)

• Dr. Ole Schütt