Yasuaki Einaga is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Keio University, Japan. He received his BS (1994), MS (1996), and PhD (1999) from the University of Tokyo. After 2 years as a research associate at the University of Tokyo, he started a faculty career as an assistant professor in Keio University in 2001, where he was promoted to professor in 2011. He was previously research director of JST-CREST (2011-2014), and is currently a research director of JST-ACCEL (2014-2020). He was awarded ""the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work"" in 2016 for his pioneering work in diamond electrodes. His research interests include functional materials science, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.