Tetsuya J. Kobayashi is a Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Science from the University of Tokyo in 2005, where his doctoral research focused on the mathematical foundations of intracellular chemical reaction networks. After completing postdoctoral research at RIKEN's Center for Developmental Biology, he joined the University of Tokyo, where he has held faculty positions since 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2023. Professor Kobayashi's research lies at the intersection of systems biology, biophysics, and applied mathematics. His work addresses the quantitative principles of cellular information processing, development, immunity, and evolution, with particular emphasis on stochastic processes, dynamical systems, and thermodynamics in biological systems for which he received the Early Career Award in Biophysics from the Biophysical Society of Japan. He is actively involved in the interdisciplinary scientific community of quantitative biology, theoretical biology and biophysics.