Tran Dang Xuan is a professor at three different departments in Hiroshima University, Japan: (1) The Center for the Planetary Health and Innovation Science (PHIS), the IDEC Institute, (2) the Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, and (3) the Smart Agriculture Faculty, Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society. Professor Xuan obtained his doctoral degree at Kagoshima University in 2004. Prior to his appointment as a professor at Hiroshima University, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of the Ryukyus in 2006 and as an associate professor at Hiroshima University in 2012. His research interests include plant breeding, genomics, weed science, sustainable agricultural production, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biomass energy, and hydrogen production with sustainable approaches.