Hideki Kanda received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan, in 2000. He then worked at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry. He was awarded the Advanced Technology Award, Japan, in 2008. He became an assistant professor at Nagoya University, Japan, in 2012. Currently, he also serves as an advisor for the Japan Science and Technology Agency international joint research program, SICORP. He has more than 200 publications and an h-index of 32 (in Scopus, 27 September 2024). His lifetime acquired public research funding is over 700 million yen and is related to research in adsorption, microalgae biofuels, high-pressure fluid extraction, and synthesis using high-pressure fluids and plasma reactions.