diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ Authors@R:
       person(given = "Sebastian",
              family = "Funk",
              role = "aut",
-             email = "sebastian.funk@lshtm.ac.uk"))
+             email = "sebastian.funk@lshtm.ac.uk",
+             comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2842-3406"))
+    )
 Description: Estimates the time-varying reproduction number,
     rate of spread, and doubling time using a range of open-source tools
     (Abbott et al. (2020) <doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16006.1>), and