Dr. Toshihide Baba received his Ph. D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1983. His research interests include catalytic chemistry and physical chemistry to reveal reaction mechanism and catalysis. He is currently Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He published more than 200 articles and contributed to 5 books. He won the Japan Petroleum Institute Award in 2017.
Dr. Akimitsu Miyaji received his Ph. D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2004. His research interests include biochemistry and bioengineering of methane monooxygenase, mechanism of molecular recognition and product selectivity of alkane monooxygenase, and oxidative stress due to the oxidation reaction with tyrosinase. He is currently Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He published 75 articles and contributed to 2 books. He won the Japan Petroleum Institute Award for Encouragement of Research and Development in 2014. He has 13 years of teaching experience at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and 1 year at Shibaura Institute of Technology.