2001-2005 Assistant Professor, The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Chemistry, Yale University (USA) 2006-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher at Kobayashi Highly Functionalized Reaction Environments Project, JST 2007- Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo Awards: 2003 Pfizer Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan 2009 The Overseas Lectureship Award, GCOE, The Univ. of Tokyo 2009 Banyu Chemist Award 2011 The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Young Scientists’ Prize

Synthetic Organic Chemistry

(1) Development of catalytic asymmetric reactions using a chiral metal complex (2) Development of novel synthetic reactions using highly functionalized catalyst systems