He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Mineralogical Institute, University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Professor Takashi Murakami. Then, he spent six and half years in the U.S. working as a post-doctoral fellow and assistant research scientist at University of Michigan with Professor Rodney C. Ewing before joining Kyushu University in 2007. His research focuses on application of advanced electron microscopy to environmental and geological materials to understand the principle mechanisms of various environmental issues. He became a fellow of Mineralogical Society of America in 2013.