diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 83805a3c..e736f709 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("Robin", "Lovelace", role = "ctb"),
     person("Andrew", "Smith", role = "ctb"),
     person("Malcolm", "Morgan", role = "ctb"),
+    person("Andrea", "Gilardi", role="ctb", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9424-7439")),
     person("Shane", "Saunders", role = "cph",
            comment = "Original author of included code for priority heaps"),
     person("Stanislaw", "Adaszewski", role = "cph",
-           comment = "author of include concaveman-cpp code")
+           comment = "author of include concaveman-cpp code") 
   )
 Description: Distances on dual-weighted directed graphs using
     priority-queue shortest paths (Padgham (2019) <doi:10.32866/6945>).