Kota Miura has worked at the Centre for Molecular and Cellular Imaging (CMCI) at EMBL since 2005. In this role, he teaches courses on image processing and analysis, organizes seminars, provides consulting and collaborations, develops new techniques, and conducts research. Prior to his current position, Miura obtained degrees from universities in Japan and Germany and spent time as a postdoc at EMBL, where he studied phototaxis, vesicle dynamics, and image analysis using simulation. He was attracted to his current position because he enjoys analyzing things using computers as analytical tools.