Educational background:

1 April 2000-: Associate Professor
Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University,
Sendai

1 October 1998-31 March 2000: Associate Professor
Department of Biology and Earth Sciences, Shizuoka University,
Shizuoka

1995: Visiting Scholar
Department of Genetics, Queens Medical Center, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, UK.

1 April 1991-30 September 1998: Research Associate
Department of Geosciences, Shizuoka University,
Shizuoka

1988-1991: Ph.D.
Department of Geology, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo.

1986-1988: M.Sc.
Department of Geology, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo.

Awards:

The best paper award of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in 1991
Academic award of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in 1999