Soyoung received her Ph.D. in 2009 from Kyoto University under the supervision of Prof. Tamio Hayashi and Prof. Ryo Shintani. After working at Kyoto University as a postdoctoral fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2010-2011), she was promoted to an assistant professor at Kyoto University (2012-2021). She moved to Immunology Frontier Research Center (iFReC) as an associate Professor and continues her academic career at Osaka University. Her research interests are DNA-based hybrid catalysts and fluorescent nucleic acids.