diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..87b05270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+{
+  "title" : "BluePyOpt",
+  "license": "LGPLv3",
+  "upload_type": "software",
+  "description": "The Blue Brain Python Optimisation Library (BluePyOpt) is an extensible framework for data-driven model parameter optimisation that wraps and standardises several existing open-source tools. It simplifies the task of creating and sharing these optimisations, and the associated techniques and knowledge. This is achieved by abstracting the optimisation and evaluation tasks into various reusable and flexible discrete elements according to established best-practices. Further, BluePyOpt provides methods for setting up both small- and large-scale optimisations on a variety of platforms, ranging from laptops to Linux clusters and cloud-based compute infrastructures.",
+  "creators": [
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Van Geit, Werner",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-2915-720X"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Gevaert, Michael",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-7547-3297"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Damart, Tanguy",
+      "orcid": "0000-0003-2175-7304"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Rössert, Christian",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-4839-2424"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Courcol, Jean-Denis",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-9351-1461"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Chindemi, Guiseppe",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-6872-2366"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Jaquier, Aurélien",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-6202-6175"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Blue Brain Project, EPFL",
+      "name": "Muller, Eilif",
+      "orcid": "0000-0003-4309-8266"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f4cb40a8..8c124b2f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -3,59 +3,22 @@
 BluePyOpt
 =========
 
-.. raw:: html
-
-	<table>
-	<tr>
-	  <td>Latest Release</td>
-	  <td>
-	    <a href="https://pypi.org/project/bluepyopt/">
-	    <img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/bluepyopt.svg" alt="latest release" />
-	    </a>
-	  </td>
-	</tr>
-	<tr>
-	  <td>Documentation</td>
-	  <td>
-	    <a href="https://bluepyopt.readthedocs.io/">
-	    <img src="https://readthedocs.org/projects/bluepyopt/badge/?version=latest" alt="latest documentation" />
-	    </a>
-	  </td>
-	</tr>
-	<tr>
-	  <td>License</td>
-	  <td>
-	    <a href="https://github.com/BlueBrain/bluepyopt/blob/master/LICENSE.txt">
-	    <img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/bluepyopt.svg" alt="license" />
-	    </a>
-	</td>
-	</tr>
-	<tr>
-	  <td>Build Status</td>
-	  <td>
-	    <a href="https://github.com/BlueBrain/BluePyOpt/actions">
-	    <img src="https://github.com/BlueBrain/BluePyOpt/workflows/Build/badge.svg?branch=master" alt="Actions build status" />
-	    </a>
-	  </td>
-	</tr>
-	<tr>
-	  <td>Coverage</td>
-	  <td>
-	    <a href="https://codecov.io/gh/BlueBrain/bluepyopt">
-	    <img src="https://codecov.io/github/BlueBrain/BluePyOpt/coverage.svg?branch=master" alt="coverage" />
-	    </a>
-	  </td>
-	</tr>
-	<tr>
-		<td>Gitter</td>
-		<td>
-			<a href="https://gitter.im/bluebrain/bluepyopt">
-			<img src="https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg"
-		</a>
-		</td>
-	</tr>
-	</table>
 
++----------------+------------+
+| Latest Release | |pypi|     |
++----------------+------------+
+| Documentation  | |docs|     |
++----------------+------------+
+| License        | |license|  |
++----------------+------------+
+| Build Status 	 | |build|    |
++----------------+------------+
+| Coverage       | |coverage| |
++----------------+------------+
+| Gitter         | |gitter|   |
++----------------+------------+
+| Zenodo         | |zenodo|   |
++----------------+------------+
 
 
 Introduction
@@ -229,6 +192,33 @@ Copyright (c) 2016-2022 Blue Brain Project/EPFL
     The index.rst location is used for the docs README; index.rst also defined an end-marker, 
     to skip content after the marker 'substitutions'.
 
+.. |pypi| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/bluepyopt.svg
+               :target: https://pypi.org/project/bluepyopt/
+               :alt: latest release
+
+.. |docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/bluepyopt/badge/?version=latest
+               :target: https://bluepyopt.readthedocs.io/
+               :alt: latest documentation
+
+.. |license| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/bluepyopt.svg
+                  :target: https://github.com/BlueBrain/bluepyopt/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
+                  :alt: license
+
+.. |build| image:: https://github.com/BlueBrain/BluePyOpt/workflows/Build/badge.svg?branch=master
+                :target: https://github.com/BlueBrain/BluePyOpt/actions
+                :alt: actions build status
+
+.. |coverage| image:: https://codecov.io/github/BlueBrain/BluePyOpt/coverage.svg?branch=master
+                   :target: https://codecov.io/gh/BlueBrain/bluepyopt
+                   :alt: coverage
+
+.. |gitter| image:: https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg
+                 :target: https://gitter.im/BlueBrain/blueptopt
+                 :alt: Join the chat at https://gitter.im/BlueBrain/BluePyOpt
+
+.. |zenodo| image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.8135890.svg
+                :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8135890
+
 .. substitutions
 .. |banner| image:: docs/source/logo/BluePyOptBanner.png
 .. |landscape_example| image:: examples/simplecell/figures/landscape_example.png