He studied chemistry at Osaka University (Japan) and obtained his PhD in science in 2009 for synthesis of UV-damaged DNA and its application to DNA repair by photolyase, under the supervision of Prof. Shigenori Iwai (Osaka Univ.) and the late Dr. Kenichi Hitomi. He worked with Dr. Pascal Plaza at Ecole Normale Superieure Paris and Dr. Klaus Brettel at CEA Saclay (France) as a visiting researcher in 2011-2012, and then was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. He shifted his center of research field from nucleic acids chemistry to protein science including structural biology.