Stevanus Kristianto Nugroho is a project research staff at the Astrobiology Center, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan. He earned his bachelor degree in Physics from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology Surabaya, Indonesia. He obtained his PhD and Master degree from Tohoku University, Japan before going to work as a postdoctoral research fellow at Queen's University Belfast for two years. His research interest is characterising exoplanet atmosphere.