I received my Ph.D. in 1996 from Nagoya University, where I worked under the supervision of Prof. Masao Doi on the dynamics of DNA molecules during gel electrophoresis. After completing my doctoral studies, I held the position of Assistant Professor at Yamagata University from 1996 to 2001, where I worked with Professors Kiyohito Koyama and Jun-Ichi Takimoto on rheology. In 1999, I spent six months as a guest researcher at the University of Naples, where I had the opportunity to learn from Profs. Giuseppe Marrucci, Giovanni Ianniruberto, and Francesco Greco. In 2001, I returned to Nagoya University as an Assistant Professor to continue my work on computational polymer science with Prof. Doi. In 2004, I was promoted to the position of Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In 2007, I joined the faculty of Kyoto University, where I collaborated with Profs. Hiroshi Watanabe and Yumi Matsumiya on polymer rheology. During my time at Kyoto University, I also spent a month collaborating with Prof. Florian Müller-Plathe on simulations of entangled polymers at the Technical University of Darmstadt. I delivered a lecture course on rheology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2015, I returned to Nagoya to become a full professor at the National Composite Center. In 2017, I joined the Engineering School, where I currently lead a research group focused on rheology.