diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 8da27d636..29e9e1aef 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ authors:
       family-names: Welzel
       affiliation: 'Department of Neurology, Kiel University, Germany'
       orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4782-5360'
+    - given-names: Amaia
+      family-names: Benitez
+      affiliation: 'Magnetoencephalography Core, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA'
+      orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6364-7272'
     - given-names: Alexandre
       family-names: Gramfort
       affiliation: 'Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau, France'
diff --git a/doc/authors.rst b/doc/authors.rst
index 82f4afa4a..fe8ae8881 100644
--- a/doc/authors.rst
+++ b/doc/authors.rst
@@ -46,3 +46,4 @@
 .. _Pierre Guetschel: https://github.com/PierreGtch
 .. _Mara Wolter: https://github.com/marakw
 .. _Julius Welzel: https://github.com/JuliusWelzel
+.. _Amaia Benitez: https://github.com/AmaiaBA
diff --git a/doc/whats_new.rst b/doc/whats_new.rst
index 03390d434..d8f0798dc 100644
--- a/doc/whats_new.rst
+++ b/doc/whats_new.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Version 0.16 (unreleased)
 
 The following authors contributed for the first time. Thank you so much! 🤩
 
-* nobody yet
+* `Amaia Benitez`_
 
 The following authors had contributed before. Thank you for sticking around! 🤘
 
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Detailed list of changes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 - :func:`mne_bids.read_raw_bids` no longer warns about unit changes in channels upon reading, as that information is taken from ``channels.tsv`` and judged authorative, by `Stefan Appelhoff`_ (:gh:`1282`)
+- MEG OPM channels are now experimentally included, by `Amaia Benitez`_ (:gh:`1222`)
 
 🛠 Requirements
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/mne_bids/pick.py b/mne_bids/pick.py
index 959562be2..120e612e7 100644
--- a/mne_bids/pick.py
+++ b/mne_bids/pick.py
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ def get_coil_types():
             FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_NM_122,
             FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_MAGNES_MAG,
             FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_BABY_MAG,
+            # support for OPM data
+            FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_QUSPIN_ZFOPM_MAG,  # QuSpin v1
+            FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_QUSPIN_ZFOPM_MAG2,  # QuSpin v2
+            FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_FIELDLINE_OPM_MAG_GEN1,  # FieldLine v1
+            FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_KERNEL_OPM_MAG_GEN1,  # Kernel
         ),
         megrefmag=(
             FIFF.FIFFV_COIL_KIT_REF_MAG,