Academic history

BS 1989 Waseda University with majors in Applied Physics.
MS 1991 Waseda University with majors in Physics. My thesis supervisor was Yoji Aizawa.
PhD 1994 The University of Tokyo. My thesis supervisor was Kunihiko Kaneko.
Assistant Professor 1994 Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Fuculty of Science, Osaka University.
VBL (Venture Buisiness Laboratory in Osaka University) visiting research fellow 1995-1996 in the Shakhnovich group in the Harvard University chemistry department.
JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) visiting research fellow 1996-1998 in the Shakhnovich group in the Harvard University chemistry department.
Associate Professor 2000 Large-scale Computational Science Division, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University.
(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University; concurrent)
Associate Professor 2002 Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University; concurrent.
Japan MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) visiting research fellow 2003-2004 in the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University