ACADEMIC CAREER:

2025-present Head, Biological Science (Macromolecular Functions), School of Science, Hokkaido University.

2019-present Professor, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University.

2019-2025 Vice-director, Frontier Research Center for Advanced Material and Life Science.

2013-2018    Associate Professor, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University.

2010 Feb.-Sep.      Visiting Researcher, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona).

2006-2013     Assistant Professor, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University.

2005-2006    Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University.

2003-2005    Research Scientist, Research Center for Glycoscience, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

2002-2003    Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Nihon University.

2000-2002  Postdoctoral Fellow, Synthetic Cellular Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN.

1999-2000   Junior Research Associate of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN.

2000          Ph.D., Graduate School of Science and Technology, Saitama University.

Concurrently:

2011-2024 Technical Advisor, Medicinal Chemistry Pharmaceuticals, Co.Ltd.

2006-2009 Advisory Scientist of Drug-Seeds Discovery Research Laboratory, AIST.

2005-2006 Advisory Scientist of Research Center for Glycoscience, AIST.

2002-2003 Collaborative Scientist of Synthetic Cellular Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN.

2000-2002 Lecture,  Department of Science, Tokyo University of Science.