Tomohisa Hasunuma is the Director of Engineering Biology Research Center, and concurrently serves as a Professor at the Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation at Kobe University, Japan. He earned his B.Sc. (1998), M.Sc. (2000) and PhD (2004) in the Department of Biotechnology at Osaka University, Japan. In 2004, Dr. Hasunuma joined Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), before transitioning to Kobe University in 2008. From 2011 to 2014, he held the position of the Researcher for Precursory Research in Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) under the Japan Science and Technology Agency. Dr. Hasunuma has authored over 230 peer-reviewed journal papers and 90 reviews and book chapters. Since 2024, he has served an Associate Editor for ACS Synthetic Biology. His research focuses on engineering biology of microorganisms such as yeast, Escherichia coli, cyanobacteria and microalgae with a particular emphasis on metabolic engineering based on metabolism analysis for the production of biofuels, commodity chemicals and highly functional compounds from renewable biomass and carbon dioxide. Dr. Hasunuma was awarded the Fermentation and Metabolism Research Prize of Japan Bioindustry Association in 2013 and the Biotechnology Encouragement Prize of Biotechnology Society of Japan in 2014.