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AUTHORS.txt

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 Contact: tyson.jones.input@gmail.com
 
 Current team:
+Dr Oliver Thomson Brown [developer]
+    planning
+    development
+    build
+    testing
+    patches
+Dr James Richings [developer]
+    optimisation
+    patches
 Dr Tyson Ray Jones [developer]
     algorithms
     parallelisation
     architecture
     interface
     testing
     documentation
-Dr Oliver Thomson Brown [developer]
-    build
-    patches
 Dr Erich Essmann [developer]
     build
     patches
-Dr Ali Rezaei [developer]
-    optimisation prototyping
-Dr Richard Meister [consultant]
-    design
-    patches
-    previous development
-Dr Balint Koczor [consultant]
-    patches
-    previous development
+Vasco Ferreira [developer]
+    development
 Prof Simon C. Benjamin [consultant]
     user requirements
 
@@ -33,6 +32,13 @@ Dr Ania (Anna) Brown [developer]
     HPC
     build
     quantum ops
+Dr Richard Meister [consultant]
+    design
+    patches
+    previous development
+Dr Balint Koczor [consultant]
+    patches
+    previous development
 Dr Fergus Cooper [developer]
     continuous integration
 Mr Jacob Wilkins [developer]
@@ -42,8 +48,12 @@ Dr Mihai Duta [developer]
 Dr Ian Bush [consultant]
     software development
     HPC
+Dr Ali Rezaei [developer]
+    optimisation prototyping
 
 External contributors:
+Maurice Jamieson
+    extended the unit test suite (#706)
 Íñigo Aréjula Aísa
     patched validation error in the experimental user-owned MPI interface (#722)
 Daniel Expósito Patiño

README.md

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 See the [docs](docs/README.md) for enabling acceleration and running the unit tests.
 
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+
+## 🤝  Team
+
+QuEST's current development team, in no particular order, consists of:
+
+- [Dr Oliver Thomson Brown](https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-oliver-brown)
+- [Dr James Richings](https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/dr-james-richings)
+- [Dr Tyson Ray Jones](https://www.tysonjones.io/)
+- [Dr Erich Essmann](https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/erich-essmann/)
+- [Vasco Ferreira](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasco-ferreira-b24058259/)
+- [Prof Simon C. Benjamin](https://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/benjamin.html)
+
+See [authors](AUTHORS.txt) for a list of all of QuEST's past and present contributors.
+
+
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 ## ❤  Acknowledgements
 
 In addition to QuEST's [authors](AUTHORS.txt), we sincerely thank the following external contributors to QuEST.
 
+External contributors:
+- [Maurice Jamieson](https://github.com/mcjamieson) for extending the unit test suite in v4.3.
+- [Íñigo Aréjula Aísa](https://github.com/iarejula-bsc) for patching a validation error in the user-owned MPI interface.
 - [Daniel Expósito Patiño](https://github.com/D-Exposito) for patching a signature of the v4 C++ API.
 - [Diogo Pratas Maia](https://github.com/diogomaia00) for implementing non-unitary Pauli gadgets (unitaryHACK 2025 [#594](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/594)).
 - [Mai Đức Khang](https://github.com/Roll249) for implementing a RAM probe (unitaryHACK 2025 [#600](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/600)).