Takuma Endo is a professor at Hiroshima University. His work is mainly concerned with laser-produced plasmas, shock waves, and detonation waves. He received his doctor's degree in engineering from Osaka University in 1990. He was a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 1989 to 1991, worked as a researcher at the Institute for Laser Technology from 1991 to 1994, and as an assistant professor and associate professor at Nagoya University from 1994 to 2003. In 2003, he moved to Hiroshima University, and has served in his current position since 2009.