Toshihiko Kiwa was born in Nara, Japan in 1976. He received his B. E., M. E., and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. After that, he worked for one year as a JSPS fellow at the Research Center for Superconductor Photonics, Osaka University, where he was involved in developing terahertz and superconductor devices. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University. His research interests include chemical sensors, magnetometric sensors, and terahertz sensing devices and systems.