Born: Kitakyusyu, Fukuoka
Favorite sports: Baseball, Golf

Member of The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) and Devision of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, CSJ, and The Society of Polymer Science, Japan

Visiting Research Fellow Experiences
Mar-May, 2002 University of Oxford, UK (Prof. John F. Ryan Lab)
May 2010-May 2011 University of Wollongong, Australia (Prof. Gordon G. Wallace Lab)

I received B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Chemistry from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1995, 1997 and 2002, respectively (supervised by Profs. Kazuyuki Kuroda and Yoshiyuki Sugahara). In 1997, I joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories.

Ph.D. thesis title
Control of Conformations and (Chir)optical Properties of Polysilanes Containing Phenyl Substituents