He received his PhD degree in 2011, working on sequence-regulated polymerization under the direction of Prof. Mitsuo Sawamoto at Kyoto University. During his doctoral course, he also studied the synthesis of functional polymers by RAFT polymerization at Universität Bayreuth (Prof. Axel H. E. Müller’s group) as a visiting student selected by the Global-COE Program of Kyoto University in 2009. In 2011, he moved to the University of Shiga Prefecture as an Assistant Professor working with Prof. Yoshitsugu Hirokawa and Prof. Shokyoku Kanaoka. His research interests focus on the structural regulation of polymer gels by utilizing controlled polymerization techniques and monomer sequence regulation for the development of advanced stimuli-responsive materials.