Dr. Yoshinobu Baba received PhD degree in 1986 from Kyushu University. He was promoted to the full professor at The University of Tokushima in 1997. He was moved to Nagoya University in 2004 as a Professor at School of Engineering and School of Medicine. He is now Emeritus Professor, Nagoya University and Designated Professor, Research Institute for Quantum and Chemical Innovation, Nagoya University. He is also a Director General of Institute for Quantum Life Science, QST, Project Leader of MEXT Q-LEAP on Quantum Life Science, and Project Director of Next-Generation Biomaterials Hub for MEXT ARIM. He received over 100 awards, prizes, and Medal: MERCK Award in 2004, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT in 2016, Medal with Purple Ribbon by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan in 2021, the CSJ (Chemical Society of Japan) award in 2021, and Kenichiro Ishii Prize in 2026. He is the author or co-author of 1,150 publications, including research papers, proceedings, reviews, and books and is also an inventor of over 145 patents. He has delivered more than 1,100 plenary and invited lectures at conferences and his work has been cited on 545 occasions by newspapers and television.

Hiroki Morishita received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Keio University in 2011. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah, a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at Osaka University, and an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University. Since 2023, he has held his current position of an Associate Professor at Tohoku University. His research focuses on quantum spintronics, aiming to integrate diamond quantum systems with spintronic devices for high-sensitivity sensing and quantum information applications.