Dr. Nicolas Schunck is a staff scientist in the nuclear data and theory group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Nicolas received his PhD in nuclear theory in 2001 from the University of Strasbourg, France. He then went on to do postdocs at the University of Surrey (UK), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and the University of Tennessee. He has been working at LLNL since 2010 on the development, computational implementation and applications of nuclear density functional theory (DFT) methods, especially in the context of fission theory. Nicolas is currently the lead developer of the two DFT solvers HFBTHO and HFODD that are widely used to model properties of atomic nuclei both for basic nuclear science or astrophysical simulations. He is also strongly involved in several large collaborations of nuclear theorists: he coordinates DFT work in the NUCLEI collaboration funded by the SciDAC program of the US Department of Energy, and he leads the FIRE topical collaboration in nuclear theory.