Norio Nakamura is a professor and leader of the beam dynamics and magnet group in Accelerator Division VI (Light Source division) of the Accelerator Laboratory at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK). His main research subject is advanced light sources such as ERL-based FELs and next-generation synchrotron radiation sources. He received his Ph. D in Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1987. He worked for the Photon Factory at KEK from 1987 to 1996 and then for the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory of the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo from 1996 to 2011.