Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The first public version (GADGET-1, released in March 2000 was created as part of Volker's PhD project under the supervision of Simon White. Later, the code was continuously improved during postdocs of Volker Springel at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute, in collaboration with Simon White and Lars Hernquist.