**About the Editors**

**Federica Semprucci** is a researcher at the Department of Biomolecular Sciences of the University of Urbino (Italy) with a current didactic activity in Developmental Biology. She graduated in Natural Sciences and obtained her PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2007 and in "Mechanisms of cell regulation: morpho-functional and evolutionary aspects" in 2011, both at the University of Urbino. Her research activity tries to better understand the meiofaunal biodiversity patterns and their drivers in coastal systems from temperate to tropical regions. She is a specialist of the Nematoda phylum and she is exploring new possible ways to utilize nematodes as a tool in the Ecological Quality (EcoQ) assessment. Furthermore, she has published several papers on nematode taxonomy, describing new species from the Maldives and Hawaii and giving some re-descriptions of species belonging to Cyatholaimidae family. She is currently involved in several research activities in Italy, Tunisia, Malaysia, Gulf of Mexico and South Korea.

**Roberto Sandulli** is Full Professor of Zoology and Marine Biology at Parthenope University of Naples (Italy). He has shared joint research programs with the Department of Biology at the University of Gent (Belgium), the Marine Laboratory of Aberdeen (UK), the Zoology Department at the University of Aberdeen (UK), the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (Greece), the Department of Biology of Columbia University (USA), the Biology Department of Jacksonville State University (USA), the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK), the Stazione Zoologica "A. Dohrn" of Naples (Italy), IFREMER, Brest (F), and several Italian Universities and Research Centers. He is reference lecturer of UNESCO, and a previous president of the Benthos Committee of the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM, 2002–2004, 2010–2015). Since 2016, he has been appointed President of the Coastal Zone Management committee of the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM, 2016–2018), and since January 2019, he has been a member of the Directive Committee of SIBM. He is the author of over 170 scientific publications concerning marine biology, the ecology of marine meiobenthos, the effect of pollution on benthic communities, marine biodiversity, allochthonous species invasion, bioconstructions, red coral distribution, MPAs management, the spatial microdistribution of meiofauna, and seagrass reimplantation.
