Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A Submission instance is associated generally with an academic paper so we need a first_author field on the Submission model to identify properly the student in question (the first author)
Describe the solution you'd like
Adding first_author field on Submission model, form, view, and template would solve this
Describe alternatives you've considered
No alternatives came to my mind, we're open on considering other approaches to solve this