Dr. Olena P. Bilous currently serves as a senior researcher at the Institute of Hydrobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Furthermore, she is also a scientific project employee at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. She received her M.Sc. in Biology at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University in 2009 and obtained her Ph.D. at the Institute of Hydrobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2012. Her research deals mainly with the biodiversity of algae, its nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology, and geographical distribution.