He received his PhD in Applied Physics from Osaka University in 2000. After working as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and as a research associate at Frontier Research Center in Osaka, he joined Osaka University in 2002 as a faculty member and started researches on super resolution fluorescence microscopy and Raman microscopy and their applications for bio- and medical imaging. He was promoted to an associate professor of Applied Physics in 2007.