He obtained his master’s(1994) and Doctor’s degrees(1997) in Engineering from Osaka University. His research focuses on development of materials processing, mainly powder processing, for functional materials with excellent performances, such as hard magnetic materials, thermoelectric materials etc. So far, he has produced nearly 140 publications. His resent research also focuses on SPS processing, and he is trying to clarify the effects of directly applied current sintering using SPS on densification behaviors of metal and ceramic powders.