A. Marini is presently at the head of the Division of Ultrafast Processes in Materials (FLASHit). FLASHit is part of the Laboratory of Materials Modeling of the Institute for Material science of the National Reserach Council in Italy. He is also part of the National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing, member of the International Advisory Panel of the African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications network and he is currently a lecturer at the East African Institute for Foundamental Reserach located in the University of Rwanda, Kigali. A. Marini founded in 2000 and is currently the head coordinator of the ab-initio Yambo project. Yambo is a worldwide known, open source code for steady-state and real-time excited state Ab-Initio calculations. Yambo is a member of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and it is installed on many High-Performance Centers around the world.