Aqua was inspired, authored and brought about by the collective work of a team of researchers. Aqua continues now to grow with the help and work of many people, listed here in alphabetical order, who contribute to the project at different levels:
- Panagiotis Barkoutsos
- Sergey Bravyi
- Chun-Fu (Richard) Chen
- Antonio Córcoles-Gonzalez
- Jay Gambetta
- Jennifer Glick
- Donny Greenberg
- Tanvi Gujarati
- Shaohan Hu
- Takashi Imamichi
- Tal Kachman
- Peng Liu
- Manoel Marques
- Antonio Mezzacapo
- Nikolaj Moll
- Giacomo Nannicini
- Pauline Ollitrault
- Marco Pistoia
- Julia Rice
- Raymond Harry Putra Rudy
- Kanav Setia
- Ivano Tavernelli
- Stephen Wood
- Stefan Wörner