Dr. Shanmugavel Chinnathambi is currently a Program-Specific Researcher at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Japan. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics and his Master’s degree in Biophysics from the University of Madras, and received his Ph.D. in Medical Physics from Anna University, India. He served as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanotechnology Innovation Station, National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan) from October 2015 to September 2017 and as an ICYS Research Fellow at the International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan) from February 2018 to February 2020. Dr. Shanmugavel Chinnathambi’s research focuses on the regulation of cellular functions using semiconductor quantum dots for infectious disease, cancer diagnosis, and treatment.