Tomoya Maeda received his Ph.D. from the Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2012. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology from April to June 2012, a postdoctoral researcher at Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology from July 2012 to August 2013, a researcher at Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth from September 2013 to December 2015, a postdoctoral researcher at Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN from January 2016 to March 2018, and a special postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN from April 2016 to January 2021. He has been an Assistant Professor at the Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, since February 2021.