Maiko Kofu obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Physics Department at Tohoku University (2005). She has been working as a postdoctoral fellow at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (2005–2006), a research associate at the University of Virginia (2006–2009), and an assistant professor at Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo (2009–2016). Since 2016, she has been working at the instrument AMATERAS at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility, J-PARC. Her research is focused on investigating the dynamics of atoms/molecules or spins in a variety of novel materials using neutron spectroscopy.