I come originally from Japan but I have spent two years studying in the UK and fifteen years working and studying in Italy. My undergraduate degree in Social Sciences in Japan has been supplemented by an MA in archaeology at the University of Nottingham, an MA in Preventive Archaeology at the University of Siena and In November 2023 I got my PhD at the University of Pisa.

Since 2009, I have been working full-time on data collection, post-processing, interpretation and GIS-input for large-scale and continuing geophysical survey for archaeology within the Emptyscapes project in Italy. Here I have also joined fieldwork projects and worked on excavation data and findings.

Since 2010 I have been a team member of the Ughtasar Rock Art Project in Armenia, and I supervised GPS survey, specialist photography,with 3D recording, post-processing and visualisation using multi-image photogrammetry (Structure from Motion, Agisoft PhotoScan).

In the coming years I plan to further develop my skills in geophysical survey and 3D recording in archaeology.