Hiroyuki Ueda is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) & Battery Research and Innovation Hub, Deakin University, who is energetically working on the development of advanced electrodes and electrolytes for battery applications, especially focusing on the realization of practical solid-state batteries using plastic crystals as promising solid electrolytes. Prior to joining Deakin University, he served as a researcher at Carlit Holdings Co., Ltd. (2016–2018), as an application development engineer at Imerys Graphite & Carbon Japan, K.K. (2018), and as a senior researcher at DARE Japan Inc. (2019). He received his Doctor of Engineering from Kumamoto University in 2016. He is also a member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ), and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI).