Takuya Hidaka received his Ph.D. in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Hiroshi Sugiyama at Kyoto University for his chemical biology research on artificial control of DNA transcription and replication using DNA-binding molecules. He has been a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2021 and is working on the development of proteome analysis techniques based on single-molecule imaging.