Kenji Takada was born in the Kanagawa Prefecture in 1988. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2011, and received his MSc in 2013 and PhD in 2016 from the same university. He was selected as the Research Fellow for Young Scientists of the JSPS in 2013. Currently he is a Project Resracher in Reserach Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science. His research interest lies in the syntheses of nanomaterials comprising inorganic and coordination compounds and their applications.