diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 6922d56fb9..6bcca68bbc 100755
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -64,11 +64,16 @@ authors:
     email: Chiara.Hergl@dlr.de
     affiliation: "German Aerospace Center (DLR)"
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4016-9113"
-  - given-names: Schlottke-Lakemper
-    family-names: Michael 
+  - given-names: Michael
+    family-names: Schlottke-Lakemper
     email: "m.schlottke-lakemper@acom.rwth-aachen.de"
     affiliation: "RWTH Aachen"
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3195-2536"
+  - given-names: Prasanna 
+    family-names: Ponnusamy
+    email: "Prasanna.Ponnusamy@dlr.de"
+    affiliation: "German Aerospace Center (DLR)"
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4950-7297"
 #Contributors
 cff-version: 1.2.0
 message: >-
diff --git a/doc/author_ponnusamy.txt b/doc/author_ponnusamy.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+I place my contributions to t8code under the FreeBSD license. Prasanna Ponnusamy (Prasanna.Ponnusamy@dlr.de).