Shivan’s current goal is to become an expert in Computational Chemistry and to gain experience and develop autonomously new working skills in an environment that allows him to continuously learn and improve. An important factor that brought him to this point was his love for Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, developed at his high school in Paramaribo. Shivan Bissesar was born in Suriname. He participated and won the national Surinamese Olympiad 2014 and 2015. This led him to participate in the 2014 International Physics Olympiad edition in Kazakhstan, where he won a Bronze medal for his country as the first ever. Shivan graduated in MSc Applied Physics from the University of Twente, where he specialized in the optics track at the Complex Photonics Systems group. In his Bachelors and Masters, he followed multiple courses in Computational/Numerical, Theoretical Physics and Chemistry. His Masters thesis was entitled ‘’Optimization of spin Hamiltonians using coupled photon Bose–Einstein condensates’’ and was under the supervision of Prof. Dr. J. Klaers. After his Masters thesis, Shivan moved to the University of Amsterdam for his Internship. His topic was ‘’Spin-orbit coupling in orthogonal charge transfer states’’. During his internship he learned how to apply the Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF) program to calculate the energetics, spin–orbit and electronic coupling in electron donor–acceptor systems for different molecular conformations.