Lyubo Penev graduated Biology at the University of Sofia and holds a Ph.D. in Ecology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He has published more than 60 papers and was co-author or (co-)editor of 7 books in biodiversity studies, development of software, biogeography, landscape and urban ecology and entomology. He is the author of BIODIV, one of the first specialized software for biodiversity research (Exeter Software, N.Y., 1991) and one of the first computerized bibliographies, CARLIT & CARRUS (1993). In 1994, he established and successfully developed Pensoft Publishers. The flagship open-access journal of Pensoft, ZooKeys, is currently considered the most technologically advanced journal in biodiversity science and has implemented several innovations in digital publishing and dissemination.