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Ph.D. (Biology) Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University.

Thesis: Morphology, Phylogeny, and Higher Classification of the Suborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocoptera).

Supervisors: Drs. Toyohei Saigusa, Hiroshi Shima, Osamu Yata, Jun-ichi Yukawa, and Kazuo Ogata.

M.A.(Environmental Science) Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University.

Thesis: A Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus Trichadenotecnumfrom Japan (Psocoptera: Psocidae: Ptyctini).

Supervisors: Drs. Toyohei Saigusa, Hiroshi Shima, and Osamu Yata.

B.Sc. (Entomology) Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University.

Thesis: Taxonomic Study on the Family Pseudocaeciliidae (Psocoptera: Psocomorpha) of Japan.

Supervisor: Dr. Katsura Morimoto.

Research Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science (Postdoctoral Fellow).

Research Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science (Doctoral Fellow).

Associate Professor of Systematic Entomology, Hokkaido University

Adjunct Lecturer, Kyoto University

Assistant Professor of Systematic Entomology, Hokkaido University

Teaching Assistant - Colleage of General Education, Kyushu University.

Many field trips spanning most areas of the Japanese Islands.

USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois: 2 months), Malaysia (7 weeks), Korea (2 week), Nepal (2 weeks), Taiwan (2 weeks), Australia (1 week). All for collection of Psocoptera, Neuroptera, and paraneopteran insects.

Systematic Entomology (Royal Entomological Society, London)

Editorial Board (2004-present)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution (Gesellschaft fur Biologische Systematik)

Editorial Board (2010-present)

ZooKeys

Subject Editor for Psocodea (2011-present)

Entomological Society of Japan

Editor of the Check List of Japanese Insects (2001-present)

Associate Editor of Entomological Science (2000-2001)

Editorial Board of Entomological Science (2002-2003, 2006-present)

International Network of Psocidologists

Editor of Psocid News (2001-present)

Membership

Entomological Society of Japan

Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan

Society of Systematic Biologists

Willi Hennig Society.

Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica (Chinese Academy of Science)
Applied Entomology and Zoology (Jpn. Soc. Appl. Ent. Zool.)
BMC Evolutionary Biology (BioMed Central)
Bonner zoologische Beitrage (Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn)
Caldasia (Universidat Nacional de Columbia)
Entomologica Fennica (The Entomological Society of Finland)
Entomological News (American Entomological Society)
Entomological Science (Ent. Soc. Jpn.)
European Journal of Entomology (The Czech Entomological Society)
Folia Entomologica Mexicana (Entomol. Soc. Mexico)
Geodiversitas (The National Museum of Natural Hisotry, Paris)
Insect Systematics & Evolution (Scandinavian Society of Entomology)
Insecta Matsumurana (Syst. Entomol., Hokkaido Univ.)
Invertebrate Taxonomy/Invertebrate Systematics (CSIRO, Australia)
Italian Journal of Zoology (Italian Society of Zoologists)
Japanese Journal of Ornithology (Orn. Soc. Jpn.)
Journal of Morphology
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (The Natural History Museum, London)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Elsevier)
PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science)
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (Entomological Society of Washington)
Systematic Entomology (The Royal Entomological Society, London)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (The Linnean Society, London)
Zoological Science (Zool. Soc. Jpn.)
ZooKeys
Zootaxa