After earning my PhD in Chemistry from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 2000, I joined the Université Pierre et Marie Curie as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2001, I was honored with a prestigious Humboldt Fellowship, which allowed me to collaborate with Prof. J. A. Gladysz at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. In 2003, I transitioned to the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), where I worked with Profs. F. Teixidor and C. Viñas through the I3P Postdoctoral Program (2003–2006) and the Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (2007–2008), culminating in my appointment as a tenured researcher in 2008.
Since 2024, I have co-led the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory (LMI) at ICMAB, where I coordinate research activities centered on the synthesis of boron-cluster-based molecular and polymeric materials, including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and their diverse applications in the fields of optics, magnetism and (electro/photo)catalysis.