2003 B.S., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo 2008 Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo 2005-2008 Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1) 2008-2009 Postdoctoral fellow, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University 2009-2009 COE Assistant Professor, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University 2009-2010 Research fellow, Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama Institute, RIKEN 2010-2012 Project Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo 2012- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo Awards: 2012 Sasagawa Incentive Award for Scientific Researches (The Japan Science Society) 2012 The First International Symposium on Biofunctional Chemistry (ISBC2012) Poster Award

Supramolecular chemistry/Coordination chemistry/Nucleic acids chemistry

The development of metal-modified functional DNA supermolecules.

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