Takeaki Ozawa received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Tokyo, before spending five years as a Research Associate and two years as a Lecturer at the University. Since 2005, he started an independent position as an Associate Professor at the Institute for Molecular Science, Japan. He is in the current position of professor at the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, the University of Tokyo. His research interest is to develop novel analytical methods for visualizing and controlling biomolecules in living cells.