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+[
+    {
+        "displayname": "Jan Caron",
+        "authorname": "Caron, Jan",
+        "affiliation": "Jülich Research Centre, Ernst Ruska Centre (ER-C)",
+        "gitlab": "jan-car",
+        "contribution": "Design, implementation, documentation, testing, management, majority of the code",
+        "orcid": "0000-0002-0873-889X"
+    },
+    {
+        "displayname": "Jörn Ungermann",
+        "authorname": "Ungermann, Jörn",
+        "affiliation": "Jülich Research Centre, Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Stratosphere (IEK-7)",
+        "gitlab": "unger",
+        "contribution": "Discussions, structure, reconstruction code from jutil",
+        "orcid": "0000-0001-9095-8332"
+    },
+    {
+        "displayname": "Alexander Clausen",
+        "authorname": "Clausen, Alexander",
+        "affiliation": "Jülich Research Centre, Ernst Ruska Centre (ER-C)",
+        "gitlab": "clausen",
+        "contribution": "Discussions, structure, testing",
+        "orcid": "0000-0002-9555-7455"
+    },
+    {
+        "displayname": "Dieter Weber",
+        "authorname": "Weber, Dieter",
+        "affiliation": "Jülich Research Centre, Ernst Ruska Centre (ER-C)",
+        "gitlab": "weber",
+        "contribution": "Discussions, structure, testing",
+        "orcid": "0000-0001-6635-9567"
+    },
+    {
+        "displayname": "Teresa Weßels",
+        "authorname": "Weßels, Teresa",
+        "affiliation": "Jülich Research Centre, Ernst Ruska Centre (ER-C)",
+        "gitlab": "wessels",
+        "contribution": "Discussions, testing",
+        "orcid": "0000-0001-5526-639X"
+    }
+]
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