2010- Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University; RDI Professor, Chuo University 1997- 2010 Professor, Kyoto University 1992- 1998 Professor, Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization, Tokyo Institute of Technology 1988- 1992 Executive Research Fellow, Group Leader, SCRC 1983- 1988 Senior Research Fellow, Group Leader, SCRC 1981- 1983 Research Fellow, Group Leader, Sagami Chemical Research Center 1972- 1981 Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering

New Organometallic Reagents and Reactions for Selective Organic Synthesis, Organofluorine and Organosilicon Chemistry, Synthesis of Biologically Active Substances, Design and Synthesis of Molecules and Materials of Novel Function