Dr. Kato is a patent attorney of Hirota Patent Attorney Firm, which is a firm affiliated with ONDA TECHNO.

She completed her doctoral course in the Department of Life Science and Technology at Graduate School of Tokyo Institute of Technology.

After completing her doctoral program, she joined a major pharmaceutical company in Japan and was primarily involved in drug discovery research. She then joined the Hirota Patent Attorney Firm and was admitted to the Japan Patent Attorneys Association in 2017.

Her main technical fields are pharmacy, biology, and chemistry.