Education

1973 B.E. Kanazawa University
1975 M.S. Kanazawa University
1986 Ph.D. Tokyo University

Work Experience

Hitachi, Ltd.,
1975 Research Staff, Central Research Laboratory
1985 Research Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory
1988 Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory
1998 Chief Research Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory
1999 Chief Research Scientist, Central Research Laboratory

AIST
2000 Chief Research Scientist, National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research
2000 Group Leader, Koike Group, Joint Research Center for Atom Technology　(JRCAT)
2001 Chief Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2001 Team Leader, Spin Measurement Team, Correlated Electron Research Center (CERC), AIST

Hokkaido University
2001 Professor, Division of Physics, Graduate School of Science

Among the Period above;
1995-1995 Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Science Measurement, Tohoku University
1986-1987 Visiting Research Scientist, KFA Jülich, Germany
1997-2000 Group Adviser, JRCAT,
1998-2000 Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2002-2007 Adviser,　CERC, AIST
2008-Present Visiting Research Scientist, AIST, Nano-electronics Research Institute1995

Awards

1988 Setoh Award, The Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy
1995 Kujin Award, Henjin-kai, Hitachi
2002 Innovative Technical Support Award, The magnetic Society of Japan
2005 Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize
2010 Distinguished Lecturer, The Korean Magnetics Society