Satoshi Takei is a professor at Toyama Prefectural University, and a visiting academic staff member at Osaka University. He was a member of Nissan Chemical Industries from 1998 to 2010. In 2001, he was a visiting assignee at IMEC. In 2009, he was a visiting scientist at the Prof. C. Grant Willson laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin and NNIN.