diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b26b19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+repos:
+- repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+  rev: v4.4.0
+  hooks:
+  - id: check-merge-conflict
+  - id: end-of-file-fixer
+  #- id: fix-encoding-pragma # ruff does not thing this makes sense
+  - id: mixed-line-ending
+  - id: trailing-whitespace
+  - id: check-added-large-files
+    args: ["--maxkb=2000"]
+
+# # Convert relative imports to absolute imports
+# - repo: https://github.com/MarcoGorelli/absolufy-imports
+#   rev: v0.3.1
+#   hooks:
+#   - id: absolufy-imports
+
+# Find common spelling mistakes in comments and docstrings
+- repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
+  rev: v2.2.2
+  hooks:
+  - id: codespell
+    args: ['--ignore-regex="(\b[A-Z]+\b)"', '--ignore-words-list=fom'] # Ignore capital case words, e.g. country codes
+    types_or: [python, rst, markdown]
+    files: ^(scripts|doc)/
+
+# Make docstrings PEP 257 compliant
+- repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/docformatter
+  rev: v1.5.1
+  hooks:
+  - id: docformatter
+    args: ["--in-place", "--make-summary-multi-line", "--pre-summary-newline"]
+
+- repo: https://github.com/keewis/blackdoc
+  rev: v0.3.8
+  hooks:
+  - id: blackdoc
+
+# Formatting with "black" coding style
+- repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+  rev: 23.1.0
+  hooks:
+      # Format Python files
+  - id: black
+      # Format Jupyter Python notebooks
+  - id: black-jupyter
+
+# Linting with ruff
+- repo: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff-pre-commit
+  # Ruff version.
+  rev: 'v0.0.245'
+  hooks:
+    - id: ruff
+      args: [--fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix]
+
+# # Check for FSFE REUSE compliance (licensing)
+# - repo: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool
+#   rev: v1.1.2
+#   hooks:
+#   - id: reuse