Dusan Racko, a researcher at Polymer Institute, the Slovak Academy of Science. He graduated from chemical engineering, partially did his PhD studies at the University of Florence, and defended his thesis on molecular simulations of polymer condensed phases in 2005. He spent 3 years in polymer physics group at Donostia International Physics Centre in Spain. Later, he spent 4 years at the Centre of Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne. His scientific interests encompass computer simulations and modeling, polymers, DNA and chromatin, topological molecules, polymer physics, and biophysics.