Dr Riko Hatakeyama is a Lecturer (Group leader; Assistant Professor equivalent) at the Institute of Medical Sciences, the University of Aberdeen, UK. He received PhD at the University of Tokyo (Japan) in 2011. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University (USA, 2011-2014) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland, 2014-2020) before establishing his own lab at Aberdeen in June 2020. His research interests include signal transduction (TOR/mTOR pathway in particular), lipid, organelle, and membrane trafficking.