Naoki Haruta was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1987. He received his Doctor of Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan in 2016. He was a postdoctoral researcher from 2016 to 2018 and a project assistant professor from 2018 to 2019 at the Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Since 2019, he has been a program-specific assistant professor at Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University. His research interests include theoretical chemistry, quantum chemistry, vibronic coupling, Jahn–Teller effect, and the application of group theory. He received the Kenichi Fukui Encouragement Award in 2019, the Young Scholar Lecture Award from the Chemical Society of Japan in 2020, the PCCP Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2021, the Encouragement Award of Japan Society of Theoretical Chemistry in 2021, and many others.