Tatsushi Akazaki was born in Kouchi Prefecture, Japan, on March 26, 1962. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan, in 1986, where he received the Ph.D degree in Engineering of electricity from the Osaka University in 1995.

Since 1986, he has been engaged in research on the transport properties of the semiconductor-coupled superconducting devices.

He is a member of the Physics Society of Japan and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.