diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7447fed2a..477df3bda 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
   person("Michael","Chirico",      role="aut", comment = c(ORCID="0000-0003-0787-087X")),
   person("Toby","Hocking",         role="aut", comment = c(ORCID="0000-0002-3146-0865")),
   person("Benjamin","Schwendinger",role="aut", comment = c(ORCID="0000-0003-3315-8114")),
+  person("Ivan", "Krylov",         role="aut",          email="ikrylov@disroot.org",   comment = c(ORCID="0000-0002-0172-3812")),
   person("Pasha","Stetsenko",      role="ctb"),
   person("Tom","Short",            role="ctb"),
   person("Steve","Lianoglou",      role="ctb"),
@@ -89,7 +90,6 @@ Authors@R: c(
   person("Iago", "Giné-Vázquez",   role="ctb"),
   person("Anirban", "Chetia",      role="ctb"),
   person("Doris", "Amoakohene",    role="ctb"),
-  person("Ivan", "Krylov",         role="ctb"),
   person("Angel", "Feliz",         role="ctb"),
   person("Michael","Young",        role="ctb"),
   person("Mark", "Seeto",          role="ctb"),