diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c51df9e2766afb892e5f8fd513617c44eafa9704..e22e17ff10b1e6b1d8b9880c78b2d9b2086644b7 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@
 [submodule "ThirdParty/cmake-modules"]
 	path = ThirdParty/cmake-modules
 	url = https://github.com/bilke/cmake-modules.git
+[submodule "ThirdParty/pybind11"]
+	path = ThirdParty/pybind11
+	url = https://github.com/pybind/pybind11.git
diff --git a/ThirdParty/pybind11 b/ThirdParty/pybind11
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8edc147d67ca85a93ed1f53628004528dc36a04d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ThirdParty/pybind11
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 8edc147d67ca85a93ed1f53628004528dc36a04d