Dr. Kubo was Assistant Professor of Kochi University (1986 - 1992) and obtained PhD in 1990 form Osaka Prefecture University. After a Post-doctoral Fellow stay (1990 - 1991) in Prof. J. L. Sessler group at the University of Texas at Austin, since 1992, he has joined Saitama University as an Associate Professor, moving to Department of Chemistry at Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) as a Professor in 2008. He also was a researcher of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) under Japan Science Technology Agency (1997 - 2000) and has concurrently been a researcher at Research Center for Gold Chemistry of TMU (2014 -) and at Research Center for Hydrogen Energy-based Society of TMU (2016 -). He has also been Research Fellow of Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo since 2017. Dr. Kubo received several awards including Daiwa Adrian Prizes for Scientific Collaboration in 2013 as the team member. His research interest has focused on self-organization-based molecular systems and functional materials for applications in organic electronics and photocatalytic systems.