Masanori Ando is a Chief Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He received his Ph.D. degree (Engineering, Chemistry) from Kyoto University in 1990. From 1990 to 2001, he worked at the Osaka National Research Institute (one of the former organizations of AIST), and since 2001, he has been working at AIST. He was a visiting professor at Kansai University (2019-2021). His fields of research are optochemical sensors, luminescent materials, and nanomaterial chemistry. Since 2020, he is an Editorial Board Member of Chemosensors.