He earned his PhD from Kyoto University in 2011 under Prof. Susumu Kitagawa on guest properties in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)/porous coordination polymers (PCPs). He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Steve Granick at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, experiencing colloid and soft matter sciences. He joined Kyushu University in 2012, and started to work on photon upconversion in self-assembled materials. He is passionate about developing new concepts in materials science and technology based on the formation, control and stabilization of the excited triplet state in condensed molecular systems.