She has received her PhD in Polymer Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and Bachelor’s degree in Education from Tokyo Gakugei University. She has worked at Kyoto Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor. She was also a Visiting Scientist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has more than 100 peer reviewed scientifi c publications and obtained over 20 patents. She is a Member of the Editorial Board of several international peer reviewed journals. Her research interests include molecular self-assembly of polymer amphiphilies, controlled/living radical polymerization, molecular design of functional polymers and polymer syntheses using supercritical carbon dioxide.