People

Primary Lead

Lucas Hale

Material Data Division of Material Measurement Laboratory at National Institute of Standards and Technology

Lucas is the content manager for the Interatomic Potentials Repository website and the creator of the atomman and iprPy Python tools.

Former Leads

Zachary Trautt

Material Data Division of Material Measurement Laboratory at National Institute of Standards and Technology

Zach set up the database infrastructure on which the Repository now operates.

Chandler Becker

Research Data and Computing Office at National Institute of Standards and Technology

Chandler created the Interatomic Potentials Repository. She now serves in an advisory role for the project.

Interns

We have been fortunate to work with a number of quality student interns over the years. Thanks go out to:

Sponsors

This project is sponsored by the Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science (CTCMS) in the Materials Science and Engineering Division of the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Additional Acknowledgments

This project could not have been relevant without all the potential developers and users providing submissions and feedback over the years. Thanks are due to Yuri Mishin for suggesting this project and for providing valuable assistance. Thanks are also due to the staff in the former Metallurgy Division, and the current the Materials Science and Engineering Division and Material Data Division at NIST for very helpful discussions.

Date Created: October 5, 2010 | Last updated: May 20, 2026