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After earning a Doctoral degree (engineering) from Miyazaki University in March 2002, he became a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Molecular Engineering, Kinki University, and he has served as assistant professor at the same university in 2007. In 2010, he became an associate professor at the Eco Town Demonstration Research Center of Kyushu Institute of Technology. He has served as Deputy Director of MSSC in Malaysia Satellite Campus in 2015. In 2017, he became an associate professor of the Innovation Promotion Organization (currently named as Open Innovation Promotion Organization). He is now the director of the MSSC office and the director of the Green Materials Research Center since 2020. With the background in organic and polymer chemistry field, his research is mainly focused on the development of functionalized materials by understanding the characteristic of the biomass.

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He has served as assistant Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in April 2000. In May 2002, he obtained a Doctoral degree (engineering) from Kyoto University and served as assistant at the university in June of the same year. He became an assistant professor (associate professor) in 2006 and a professor since 2016. His research is related to biological and environmentally friendly materials and their synthetic processes based on the inorganic material chemistry.

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He earned a doctoral degree (engineering) from Kyushu Institute of Technology in March 2006. From April 2006 to September 2007, he worked as doctoral researcher at Professor Thomas K. WOOD’s laboratory which located at Texas A & M University, United States. In October 2007, he became an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Biophysical Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, and then promoted to an associate professor since October 2011 until now. He strives to contribute to the environment and healthcare field through his research on biotechnology development by utilizing microbial functions.

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After obtaining a doctoral (academic) degree from Okayama University in March 2005, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Porto University, Portugal from September 2005 to September 2008. In October 2008, she has served as the assistant professor at the Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Okayama University. In September 2012, she became an associate professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology Young Researcher Frontier Research Academy Tenure Track. She took up her current position since April 2017 until now. Her research focused on determining the effects of material properties on living organisms (cells) in the fields of inorganic chemistry, material chemistry, and biochemistry. She also works on the development of new medical materials in her research work.

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After earning a doctoral degree (science) from Nagoya University in March 2005, he worked as a researcher at JAEA and Tohoku University WPI. After that, he joined Graduate School of Biophysical Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2009. With the background of solid-state physics, he works on development of new materials by using quantum beams and computational science.

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He became an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, after obtaining a doctoral (global environmental science) degree from Hokkaido University in March 2007. In November 2012, he worked as an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology. In April 2020, he became an associate professor. His research is focused on developing spectroscopic systems in order to understand the characteristics of materials in the fields of semiconductor particles and spectroscopic analysis. Besides, he is also developing photo-functional materials such as photocatalysts.

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He became the Research Fellowship (DC2) for Young Scientists of the Japan society in 1997. In March 1998, he quitted the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Science and Engineering, Kyushu University and worked as research assistant at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University from April 1998 to June 2000. In June 2020, he became an engineer at the Kumamoto Prefectural Industrial Technology Center. He earned his doctoral degree (engineering) degree in September 2020. He has served as chief engineer of Kumamoto Industrial Research Institute in June 2002. He became an associate professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology since April 2004. His research topic related to charcoal derived from biomass (Bio-charcoal).

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In March 2016, he earned a doctoral (engineering) degree from the Graduate School of Biophysical Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at Kyutech, he continued the microbiology research as a postdoc at Pennsylvania State University in United States in 2017. Then, he became an assistant professor in the field of infectious molecular biology at Kyushu Dental University in 2019 until today. By utilizing his engineering experience, he is developing the new field of microbiology and striving to become the core for the collaboration of dental and engineering.