Yuichi Negishi was born in Saitama, Japan, in 1972. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 2001 from Keio University. Before joining the Tokyo University of Science in 2008, he was employed at Keio University and at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS). Since 2013, he has been an Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of Science. He is now the professor of Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He has over 150 publications that have been cited over 8,000 times. In his publications, 10 papers are/were categorized to Top 1% Cited Papers and 18 papers were selected as Cover Picture of the Journal. His publication H-index is 47. He has been awarded several prizes, including the PCCP Prize (2007), CSJ Award for Young Chemists (2008), Japan Society of Molecular Science Award for Young Chemists (2012), Yagami Prize (2017), and IUPAC Distinguish Award 2018 for Novel Materials and Their Synthesis (2018).