1996 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. 1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. 1999 Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2001 RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher. 2004 RIKEN BNL Research Center Fellow. 2006 Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, Kochi University. 2010 Professor at the Faculty of Science, Kochi University.