He received his B.S. in industrial chemistry in 2003 and his Ph.D. in material chemistry in 2008 from Kyoto University. From 2008 to 2011 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Yuichi Ikuhara at Tokyo University. In 2011, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the lab of Prof. Masaki Azuma at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests include materials chemistry and catalyst chemistry.