Ryo Mizuta is currently a Senior Teaching Associate with the NanoDTC, overseeing the development and running of the new Applied Nanoscience module, as well as the DTC 1st year curriculum. He is also Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies (Part II & III Natural Sciences, Physics) at Lucy Cavendish College.

He is concurrently a postdoctoral research associate in the Nanomanufacturing group (Prof. Michael de Volder), working on the development and commercialisation of a microparticle manufacturing process via emulsion templating. Prior to this, he was a Translational Prize Fellow in the Bioelectronics Lab (Prof. George Malliaras), working on the commercialisation of wearable biosensors for vaginal health monitoring. He completed his PhD in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Hofmann, where he developed an environmental scanning electron microscope towards in-operando metrology of 1D and 2D nanomaterial growth and processing. 

Outside of academia, Ryo also works as a scientific illustrator, creating 3D illustrations for publications, journal covers and technical animations (Ryo Mizuta Graphics).