Hideya Kawasaki is a Professor at Kansai University. He received his Ph.D degree in Science from Kyushu University in 1996. Since 1999, he worked as an assistant professor at Kyushu University. In 2006, he moved to be an associate professor at Kansai University, and he was promoted to a full professor in 2012. He is an Editorial Board Member of Analytical Sciences, Mass Spectrometry, and Nanomaterials. He received Awards for Younger Researchers from Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry from the Chemical Society of Japan (2003) and the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (2011). His current research topics include the fabrication and characterization of inorganic/carbon nanoparticles, as well their applications for sensing, imaging and mass spectrometry.