Dr. Marjan Mernik received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maribor in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Computer and Information Sciences. His research interests include programming languages, compilers, domain-specific (modeling) languages, grammar-based systems, grammatical inference, and evolutionary computations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer Languages, as well as Associate Editor of the Applied Soft Computing Journal, and Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal. He is being named a Highly Cited Researcher for years 2017 and 2018.