diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 9f10afdcd..20f56c3fc 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   Ethan Alan Hereth <e.a.hereth@gmail.com>
   Alex Fikl <alexfikl@gmail.com>
   Hannes Frank <frank@iag.uni-stuttgart.de>
-  Michael Lahnert <michael.lahnert@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de>
+  Michael Lahnert <michael.lahnert@gmail.com>
   Olivier Iffrig <olivier.iffrig@cea.fr>
 */
 
diff --git a/doc/author_lahnert.txt b/doc/author_lahnert.txt
index ea4baffa8..ea63cab6f 100644
--- a/doc/author_lahnert.txt
+++ b/doc/author_lahnert.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-I place my contributions to p4est under the FreeBSD license. Michael Lahnert (michael.lahnert@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de)
+I place my contributions to p4est under the FreeBSD license. Michael Lahnert (michael.lahnert@gmail.com)
+