**About the Editor**

#### **Matjaz Kuntner ˇ**

Matjaz Kuntner, PhD, studies evolution, phylogenetics, biogeography and conservation, ˇ focusing on spider biology and covering topics from biodiversity and taxonomic discovery to morphological adaptation, sexual conflict, genomics and silk biology. A graduate from the George Washington University, USA, Kuntner is employed at the National Institute of Biology and the ZRC SAZU, both in Slovenia. He works globally, with adjunct academic titles at the Smithsonian, USA, at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and at Hubei University, China
