Zarko Janic was born in 1980 in Pula, Croatia. He received his M.E. from the faculty of electrical engineering and computing at the University of Zagreb at the department of power systems in 2004 and PhD at the same faculty in 2008. He was a researcher at the Koncar Electrical Engineering Institute in the Transformer Department, working on magnetic topics. After that he was Head of Research and Development in Koncar Power Transformers and then Head of Research in the Large Power Transformer segment in Siemens AG. Currently he is head of the Operational Excellence department at Siemens Energy - Large Power Transformer segment. He teaches as associate professor at the University in Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb both for the undergraduate study and transformer specialist postgraduate study. Ass. Prof. Janic is an observer member, Croatian representative, of the Cigre A2 study committee. Since 2016 he has headed the Cigre working group A2.56 Power Transformer Efficiency. He received the Koncar award in 2008 for his PhD as the best PhD with application in the industry.