Professor Takashi Kamiyama works at Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Proton Accelerator Complex (J-PARC). He is Dean of School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies at KEK. Professor Kamiyama has been a leading scientist in powder diffraction instrumentation, in both the former KEK and present J-PARC facilities. Until last year, he was head of Neutron Science Section, Materials and Life Science Division at J-PARC. He currently serves as leader of the neutron scattering project in Japan’s new generation batteries project (RISING) of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), and an advisor to iMATERIA, the Ibaraki Prefecture materials diffractometer. He also leads the development efforts of Z-code, a neutron powder diffraction data analyses software suite at J-PARC. His research interests include structure-function relationship in advanced materials such as Li-ion batteries, multiferroic materials, strongly correlated electron systems, and superconductors, etc., and crystallography, powder diffraction, powder diffraction software development.