Branislav Jansik has obtained his PhD in computational chemistry at Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden in 2004. He took postdoctoral position at IPCF, Consiglio Niazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, to carry on development and applications of high performance computational methods for molecular optical properties. Since 2006 he worked on development of highly parallel optimization methods in the domain of electronic structure theory at Aarhus University, Denmark. In 2012 he joined IT4Innovations, the Czech national supercomputing center as a head of supercomputing services. He published a number of papers and co-authored the DALTON electronic structure theory code.