After obtaining his PhD degree from the Department of Crystalline Materials Science of Nagoya University in 2009, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009-2010) and Boston College (2010-2013). He then became an Assistant Professor at the Advanced Institute of Materials Research in Tohoku University from 2013 to 2017 where his work was supported by the Inamori and Sumitomo Foundations. His research focuses on topological quantum phenomena, strongly correlated systems, unconventional superconductors, and oxide electronics.