pyiron was initially developed in the Computational Materials Design department of Joerg Neugebauer at the Max Planck Insitut für Eisenforschung (Max Planck Insitute for iron research) as a framework for ab initio thermodynamics. In collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) the framework was recently extended for high throughput applications resulting in the opensource release of pyiron.