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@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ authors:
   - name: Thijs van Lankveld
     orcid: 0009-0001-1147-4813
     affiliation: 1
+  - name: Meiert W. Grootes
+    orcid: 0000-0002-5733-4795
+    affiliation: 1
   - name: Francesco Nattino
     orcid: 0000-0003-3286-0139
     affiliation: 1
@@ -60,6 +63,4 @@ We provide a tutorial as a Jupyter notebook to demonstrate the basic functionali
 
 The authors express sincere gratitude to the Dutch Research Council (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO) for their generous funding of the `STMTools` development through the Collaboration in Innovative Technologies (CIT 2021) Call, grant NLESC.CIT.2021.006. Special thanks to SURF for providing valuable computational resources for `STMTools` testing.
 
-We would also like to thank Dr. Meiert Willem Grootes for the insightful discussions, which are important contributions to this work.
-
 ## References