Kunihiro Ogawa was born in Mino, Gifu, Japan, in 1984. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He studied electrical and electronic engineering at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, from 2003 to 2006. He has been with the National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan, since 2012. He has been an Associate Professor with the National Institute for Fusion Science since 2020. His current research interests include the energetic-ion confinement in magnetically confined fusion plasmas.