Naoya Shibata received a PhD in Materials Science in 2003 at University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Research Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2003-2004). He was a Research Associate in Institute of Engineering Innovation at the University of Tokyo (2004-2007) and was an Assistant Professor (2007-2011) and now an Associate Professor (2011- ). His research focuses on the grain boundaries and interfaces in oxide materials using scanning transmission electron microscopy.