- 2022 - 現在 Center for iPS Cell Research and Application Head of Department of Fundamental Cell Technology
- 2019 - 現在 Institute for Advancement of Clinical and Translational Science (iACT), Kyoto University Hospital, Project Leader
- 2017 - 現在 RIKEN BioResource Research Center (BRC), Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Senior Visiting Scientist
- 2014 - 現在 Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Professor
- 2009 - 2015 Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST Principal Investigator
- 2010 - 2014 CiRA, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Associate Professor
- 2009 - 2010 CiRA, iCeMS, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Associate Professor
- 2005 - 2009 Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Assistant Professor
- 2004 - 2005 Neuroregeneraion Laboratory, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1999 - 2004 Brain Science Institute, RIKEN at Wako, Saitama, Japan Staff Scientist
- 1998 - 1999 National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan Research Fellow
- 1997 - 1998 National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Neurology Research Resident, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Laboratory for Neuropathology, University Medical School of Pecs, Hungary Research Fellow
- 1993 - 1997 Department of Neurology, Sumitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan Resident
- 1992 - 1993 Department of Neurology, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan Resident
- 1992 - Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan (Master's Program)