Hideki Yorimitsu obtained his Ph.D. in 2002 from Kyoto University under the supervision of Professor Koichiro Oshima. He then served as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow with Professor Eiichi Nakamura at the University of Tokyo. Subsequently, he became Assistant Professor (2003) and Associate Professor (2008) in the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. In 2009, he moved to the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2015. He received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists in 2009, the Young Scientists’ Prize from MEXT in 2011, the Mukaiyama Award in 2016, the JSPS Prize in 2020, and the Japan Academy Medal in 2020. His research focuses on the development of new organic transformations to create new molecules, phenomena, and concepts.