He received his PhD degree from The University of Tokyo in 2013. During his PhD course, he spent 5 months as a visiting student at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. After postdoctoral research at the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, he joined Osaka University. His research interest is theoretical modeling, primarily based on first-principles calculations, of the structure and dynamics of molecules at interfaces and the electron transport of metal–molecule–metal systems.