**Meet the editor**

Dr. Takashiro Akitsu now is a professor of Chemistry, at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Division II, Tokyo University of Science. He got his BSc degree in Chemistry, MSc degree in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, and PhD degree in Chemistry at Osaka University in 2000. He became a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Protein Research at Osaka University

in 2000, and he was appointed as an assistant professor at Keio University in 2002 (he stayed at Stanford University in 2007–2008). He moved to Tokyo University of Science as a junior associate professor in 2008 and was promoted to the present position in 2012. His research field is coordination chemistry, physical inorganic chemistry, and crystallography (organic/inorganic hybrid materials composed of chiral metal complexes).
