Michiko Sakaki received her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Tokyo in 2007. She received her postdoc training on neuroscience at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, as well as additional postdoc training on cognitive neuroscience and aging at the University of Southern California in USA. She then worked at the University of Reading, UK between 2013 and 2020 as a senior research fellow. Since 2021, she is a tenure track professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany.