Zlatko Bačić received his B.S. from the University of Zagreb and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah. He was trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Chicago, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. In recognition of his major contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry, Professor Bačić was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society at 2009.