diff --git a/recipes/fans/fix_gitignore_ms.patch b/recipes/fans/fix_gitignore_ms.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..208a0637307d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/fans/fix_gitignore_ms.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 393a0c622bcef196bbe1c0cc81fe8c15b9b152c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Claudius Haag <claudius.haag@web.de>
+Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:04:56 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix gitignore for sphere32 inclusion + needed for copying
+ when doing test for conda-forge packaging
+
+---
+ .gitignore | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
+index 2bc948f..c713336 100644
+--- a/.gitignore
++++ b/.gitignore
+@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ test/input_files/**/*.json
+ **/scratch/
+
+ # Test microstructure files
+-!sphere.h5
++!sphere32.h5
+
+ # Test input files
+ !test_LinearElastic.json
+--
+2.34.1
diff --git a/recipes/fans/recipe.yaml b/recipes/fans/recipe.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..78ad444a09cb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/fans/recipe.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+context:
+  version: "0.3.0"
+
+package:
+  name: fans
+  version: ${{ version }}
+
+source:
+  url: https://github.com/DataAnalyticsEngineering/FANS/archive/refs/tags/v${{ version }}.tar.gz
+  sha256: 1573478d9acd27a9cfc126a4167ce3951ec26e9896bf19577b44cbc4bdc48b88
+  patches:
+    - fix_gitignore_ms.patch  # modify so gitignore does not include the sphere32.h5 file
+
+build:
+  number: 0
+  skip:
+    - win
+    - osx
+  script:
+    - if: linux
+      then:
+        - rm -rf build
+        - mkdir build
+        - cd build
+        - cmake .. $CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$PREFIX/bin/mpicc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$PREFIX/bin/mpicxx
+        - cmake --build . -j
+        - cmake --install .
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - ${{ compiler('c') }}
+    - ${{ compiler('cxx') }}
+    - ${{ stdlib('c') }}
+    - cmake
+    - make
+    - ninja
+  host:
+    - hdf5 * mpi_openmpi*
+    - fftw * mpi_openmpi*
+    - openmpi-mpicxx
+    - eigen
+
+tests:
+  - package_contents:
+      bin:
+        - FANS
+  - script:
+    - JSON_FILE="$PREFIX/etc/conda/test-files/$PKG_NAME/0/test/input_files/test_LinearElastic.json"
+    - MODIFIED_JSON_FILE="$PREFIX/etc/conda/test-files/$PKG_NAME/0/test/input_files/test_LinearElastic_mod.json"
+    - NEW_MS_FILENAME="$PREFIX/etc/conda/test-files/$PKG_NAME/0/test/microstructures/sphere32.h5"
+    # Use jq to create a modified copy of the JSON file
+    - jq --arg new_filename "$NEW_MS_FILENAME" '.ms_filename = $new_filename' "$JSON_FILE" > "$MODIFIED_JSON_FILE"
+    # Run tests
+    - mpiexec -n 2 FANS "$MODIFIED_JSON_FILE" "$PREFIX/etc/conda/test-files/$PKG_NAME/0//test/test_results.h5"
+    requirements:
+      run:
+        - jq
+    files:
+      source:
+        - test/
+
+about:
+  homepage: https://github.com/DataAnalyticsEngineering/FANS
+  summary: "FANS: an open-source, efficient, and parallel FFT-based homogenization solver designed to solve microscale multiphysics problems."
+  description: |
+    Fourier Accelerated Nodal Solvers (FANS) is an FFT-based homogenization solver designed to handle microscale multiphysics problems.
+    This repository contains a C++ implementation of FANS, built using CMake and MPI for parallel computations.
+  license: LGPL-3.0-only
+  license_family: LGPL
+  license_file: LICENSE
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - sanathkeshav
+    - claudiushaag
+    - EMMAOpenSource