Prof. Yasuteru Shigeta received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Kanazawa University in 1995, his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Kanazawa University in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Osaka University in 2000. He began his academic career at Osaka University, where he was later appointed Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Sciences in 2014. Since 2016, he has served as Professor in the Division of Life Science at the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, where he was also Vice President and Executive Director for Research between 2023 and 2025, and currently serves as Director of the Center. His research interests include biological physics, chemical physics, and soft matter physics.