Masahiro Goto is a professor in the department of Applied Chemistry at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University (Japan). He received his BS and MS in applied chemistry from Kyushu University. He received his doctoral degree (chemical engineering) in 1989 from Kyushu University. Then he was promoted as an associate professor in 1990. During the career, he spent one year at MIT as a visiting professor. In 2001, he was promoted to full-professor. He received many outstanding research awards from Chemical Engineering Society of Japan (CSEJ). His current research interest is metal extraction based on the ionic liquid-based technology. He has published 152 review articles and more than 700 papers in scientific journals. He has more than 27,000 citations and his h-index is now 81. He is now chief editor of Biochemical Engineering Journal (BEJ).