Wataru Aoki received his Ph.D. in Agriculture from Kyoto University in 2013. His research career began as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1) during his doctoral program and continued as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD) at Osaka University. In 2015, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, where he spent eight years managing a laboratory. During this tenure, he led numerous research projects, holding concurrent positions as a JST PRESTO Researcher and a Kyoto University FOREST Principal Investigator. He also contributed to industry-academia collaboration, serving as an Adjunct Researcher at the Kyoto Bio-Analysis Center and an Expert Advisor for Barcodebody Co., Ltd. Since April 2023, he has served as a Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, where he is dedicated to pioneering research and mentoring the next generation of scientists in the field of biotechnology.