“…After working as a researcher at the Osaka National Research Institute, AIST (now the Kansai Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST) (1992-1996), a Research Associate at the Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University (1996), and an Associate Professor (2005), he has been a Full Professor since 2011. His research interests include inorganic materials Electrochemistry, 90 (10), 102000 (2022) synthesis 48 and electrochemistry, 49,50 especially ionic conduction 51 and interfacial electrochemistry from the viewpoint of solution properties at the solid-liquid interface. 52,53 He has published about 200 peerreviewed papers in these research areas.…”