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Organic chemistry is a research field with a primary focus on the synthesis and manipulation of molecules composed of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, halogen along with a handful of other elements. It is remarkable to consider that we can create billions and billions of possible molecular structures with only 30 elements! I have been interested in organic chemistry ever since high school because I can make organic molecules by connecting each element in a manner similar to LEGOs, which I was into during my childhood. After earning my Ph.D. in 2016, I spent almost 5 years as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, Kyoto University and ITSUU Laboratory where I worked on natural product synthesis and transition metal catalysis. At Kyoto University as a Hakubi Researcher, I will focus primarily on the creation of novel artificial metalloenzymes that enable robust bond-forming reactions with excellent selectivity.