diff --git a/r/DESCRIPTION b/r/DESCRIPTION
index 6e66c3bc7b707..72e1c4334ce8f 100644
--- a/r/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/r/DESCRIPTION
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("Jonathan", "Keane", email = "jkeane@gmail.com", role = c("aut")),
     person("Drago\u0219", "Moldovan-Gr\u00fcnfeld", email = "dragos.mold@gmail.com", role = c("aut")),
     person("Jeroen", "Ooms", email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu", role = c("aut")),
+    person("Jacob", "Wujciak-Jens", email = "jacob@wujciak.de", role = c("aut")),
     person("Javier", "Luraschi", email = "javier@rstudio.com", role = c("ctb")),
     person("Karl", "Dunkle Werner", email = "karldw@users.noreply.github.com", role = c("ctb"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0523-7309")),
     person("Jeffrey", "Wong", email = "jeffreyw@netflix.com", role = c("ctb")),