He received his PhD from Kyoto University under the supervision of Professor Atsuhiro Osuka in 2009. In the same year, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo (Professor Makoto Fujita's group) where he was promoted to Lecturer in 2014. In 2016, he began his independent career at Hokkaido University. His research focuses on the design, synthesis and application of aliphatic polyketones, so-called ‘carbonyl strings’ (he has a molecular model in the picture).