He received his D.Sc. in 1994 from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies. He spent one year (1994–1995) at the University of Alabama and two years (1995–1997) at the University of South Carolina as a postdoctoral fellow. Subsequently, he was appointed assistant professor (1997) and later promoted to associate professor (2006) in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University. His current research interests include organic materials chemistry, particularly nanoscale artificial functional molecules.