Prof. Zdenek Slanina received his doctorate from the Academy of Sciences of the former Czechoslovakia in 1975 and worked there until 1991. He has been active in the computational chemistry of fullerenes since their discovery, creating several models that have been widely adopted by his peers. He has worked in well-known research institutions such as Hokkaido University, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of Arizona, Institute for Molecular Science, University of Tsukuba, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.