diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1c196835e909bf40eb0be11cb58be094fbd292d4..7378b81c50529905c46fd8f32fd94fe8c1d7f01d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("Stephan", "Seifert", , "stephan.seifert@uni-hamburg.de", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2567-5728")),
     person("Sven", "Gundlach", role = "aut"),
-    person("Silke", "Szymczak", role = "aut")
+    person("Silke", "Szymczak", role = "aut"),
+    person("Florian", "Gärber", , "florian.gaerber@uni-hamburg.de", role = "ctb",
+           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3875-9736"))
   )
 Author: Stephan Seifert, Sven Gundlach, Silke Szymczak
 Maintainer: Stephan Seifert <stephan.seifert@uni-hamburg.de>