Vladan Stevanović received his Ph.D. from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2009 in studying transition metal clusters for application in heterogeneous catalysis. After receiving his PhD, Vladan moved to National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO, and currently holds a Research Assistant Professor position at Colorado School of Mines. Vladan is member of the Center for Inverse Design, and his research is mostly dedicated to developing predictive computational tools to address materials properties of relevance for renewable energy applications.