Viktor N. Staroverov received his undergraduate education from Belarus State University (1994), an MSc from Brock University (1997), and a PhD from Indiana University (2001). Afterwards, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rice University. Dr. Staroverov came to Western in 2006, where he is now a Professor in the Department of Chemistry. His research interests include method development in the area of electronic structure theory (density-functional and ab initio techniques), computational quantum chemistry, and its applications to space research.