Takeo Minamikawa received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 2006, 2008, and 2010, and a Ph.D. degree in Medicine from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, in 2021. In 2011, he joined the Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. In 2015, he moved to the Institute of Technology and Science, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan. Since 2019, he has been an associate professor of the Institute of Post-LED Photonics, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan. He also holds concurrent posts at National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, as visiting director, and the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, as visiting associate professor. His current research interests involve the interdisciplinary research of photonics and medicine and microscopic metrology by using vibrational spectroscopy and optical-frequency comb.