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1981 | B.S. (Earth Science), The University of Tokyo |
1983 | M.S. (Mineralogy), The University of Tokyo |
1996 | D.Sc. (Mineralogy), The University of Tokyo |
1983-1987 | Researcher, Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. |
1987-1988 | Visiting Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1988-1995 | Senior Researcher, Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. |
1996-1998 | Research Associate, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo |
1998-2016 | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo |
2016- | Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo |
- Mineralogy
- Crystallography
- Material Science
- Electron microscopy
- Clay Science Society of Japan
- Japan Association of Mineralogical Science
- Japanese Society of Microscopy
- Clay Minerals Society (USA)
- Mineralogical Society of America (USA)
- Award of The Mineralogical Society of Japan (2007)
- Award of The Clay Science Society of Japan (2007)
- CMS Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award (2010)
- The Mineralogical Society of America, Fellow (2013)
- The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, George Brown Lecture Award (2019)
- Phyllosilicates, clays and related layered materials
- Fundamental mechanisms of biomineralization
- Development of new electron beam microanalysis techniques for mineralogy
- Mineralogical elucidation of radioactive contamination after the Fukushima nuclear accident