Koichi Nagata received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University (Japan) in 2016 under the guidance of supervisor Prof. Norihiro Tokitoh (Main group chemistry). After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he then undertook postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jonas C. Peters (Inorganic chemistry) at Caltech as a JSPS Overseas Research Fellow. He then joined the Shionoya group (The University of Tokyo) as a postdoctoral fellow in September of 2017. He was promoted to a project assistant professor in April of 2018, working with Prof. Mitsuhiko Shionoya (Coordination chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry). In 2020, he joined the Hashimoto group as an Assistant Professor.