Akio Makishima worked as an analytical geochemist in the Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior (now the Institute for Planetary Materials) of Okayama University, Japan. He became a Professor at this institute in 2006, and he has published over 60 scientific papers. He is also the author of three books, Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS) (2016), Origins of the Earth, Moon, and Life (2017), and Biochemistry in Materials Science (2019).