diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 1667e10..a1382d3 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2018-2023 Tomas Stolker
+Copyright (c) 2018-2024 Tomas Stolker
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7183fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "species"
+version = "0.8.4"
+authors = [{name = "Tomas Stolker", email = "stolker@strw.leidenuniv.nl"}]
+description = "Toolkit for atmospheric characterization of directly imaged exoplanets"
+readme = "README.rst"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+license = {text = "MIT License"}
+classifiers = [
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy",
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Documentation = "https://species.readthedocs.io"
+Repository = "https://github.com/tomasstolker/species"
+Issues = "https://github.com/tomasstolker/species/issues"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = []
+py-modules = []
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+dependencies = {file = ["requirements.txt"]}
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+example = ["*.json"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bc03df..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-import pkg_resources
-import setuptools
-
-with open("requirements.txt") as req_txt:
-    parse_req = pkg_resources.parse_requirements(req_txt)
-    install_requires = [str(req) for req in parse_req]
-
-setuptools.setup(
-    name="species",
-    version="0.8.4",
-    description="Toolkit for atmospheric characterization of directly imaged exoplanets",
-    long_description=open("README.rst").read(),
-    long_description_content_type="text/x-rst",
-    author="Tomas Stolker",
-    author_email="stolker@strw.leidenuniv.nl",
-    url="https://github.com/tomasstolker/species",
-    project_urls={"Documentation": "https://species.readthedocs.io"},
-    packages=setuptools.find_packages(include=["species", "species.*"]),
-    package_dir={"species:": "species"},
-    package_data={"species": ["data/*/*.json"]},
-    install_requires=install_requires,
-    tests_require=["pytest"],
-    license="MIT",
-    zip_safe=False,
-    keywords="species",
-    classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
-        "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
-        "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
-        "Natural Language :: English",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
-    ],
-)