Tatsuya Nishino earned his Ph.D. in Medicine from Osaka University and continued postdoctoral research at the Biomolecular Engineering Research Institute (Osaka), the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Protein Research at Osaka University. He served as an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Genetics before joining the Department of Biological Science and Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, as an Associate Professor. He is now a Professor in the Faculty of Advanced Engineering. His research centers on the structural biology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics of proteins related to chromosome biology and biotechnology.