Professor Kamiyama was awarded his PhD in physics by Tohoku University in 1987. He has worked at the Tohoku University and University of Tsukuba. He currently works for the High Energy Accelerator Organisation and Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai. He has been a leading scientist in powder diffraction instrumentation in both the former KENS and present J-PARC. He is a leader of development of the neutron powder diffraction data analyses software suite, Z-Code, for all powder diffractometers at J-PARC.