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## **About the Special Issue Editor**

**Seiichi Uchiyama** has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo since 2005. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the University of Tokyo (supervisor: Prof. Kazuhiro Imai). Then, he spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Nara Women's University (supervisor: Prof. Kaoru Iwai) and Queen's University of Belfast (supervisor: Prof. A. Prasanna de Silva). After returning to the University of Tokyo in 2005, he started his career as an experimental researcher and continues to work as an independent leader of scientific projects funded by the Japanese governmen<sup>t</sup> since 2008. His current interests include analytical and photophysical chemistry and the development of fluorescent sensors based on novel functional mechanisms.
