Acknowledgements
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Main contributors (in alphabetical order):
- `Mark Hindmarsh <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9307-437X>`_
  - Creator of the Sound Shell Model, author of the first versions of PTtools (2015 →)
- `Chloe Hopling <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7955-4465>`_
  - Several scripts used for testing
- `Mika Mäki <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8162-7101>`_
  - University of Helsinki summer employee 2021, MSc student 2022-2024, PhD student 2025→
  - Major rework of PTtools, current main developer

In addition to the main contributors,
the following people have contributed to the development of PTtools (in alphabetical order):

- `Mudhahir Al-Ajmi <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9888-5318>`_
- Danny Bail
  - Sussex MPhys RP projects 2016-2018
- `Daniel Cutting <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7395-7802>`_
  - Plotting script for solution types
- Beth Gould
  - University of Sussex MPhys project 2015-2016
- Nicola Hopkins
  - University of Sussex PhD project 2013-2016
- `Mulham Hijazi <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-1518>`_
- Jacky Lindsay
  - University of Sussex MPhys project 2017-2018
- Mike Soughton
  - MPhys project 2017-2018

The development of PTtools has been funded by

- `University of Helsinki <https://www.helsinki.fi/>`_
- `University of Sussex <https://www.sussex.ac.uk/>`_
- `Academy of Finland <https://www.aka.fi/>`_
  grants
  :aof_grant:`286769 <286769>`,
  :aof_grant:`333609 <333609>`
  and
  :aof_grant:`363676 <363676>`
- `Science and Technology Facilities Council <https://www.ukri.org/councils/stfc/>`_
  grants
  `ST/J000477/1 <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FJ000477%2F1>`_,
  `ST/L000504/1 <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FL000504%2F1>`_,
  `ST/X000796/1 <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FX000796%2F1>`_

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