Current scientific roles and responsibilities

• Adjoint lecturer, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
• Member of the Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-CIMS)
• Member of the Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-MaThCryst)
• Consultant of the Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-CCN)
• Lecturer at the annual Training courses on symmetry and Group Theory in Japan
• Co-author of the IUCr online dictionary of crystallography

Invited professor positions

• Short-Term Invited Fellow,, High-Energy Accelerator Research Center, Tsukuba (February-March 2016 and February-March 2017)
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kyoto University (June-Augunt 2015)
• Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology (December 2014 – March 2015)
• Visiting Professor, Kumamoto University (April 2012 – March 2013)
• Visiting Professor, Tohoku University (June-July 2012)
• Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Science (April 2010 – March 2011)

Scientific editor roles

• Editor-in-Chief SpringerBriefs Series in Crystallography
• Associate Editor, European Journal of Mineralogy
• Member of the Advisory Board, Crystal Research and Technology
• Member of the selection committee, IUCr/Oxford University Press (OUP) Book Series
• Book review editor for the IUCr journals
• Guest Editor, Special issue on mathematical crystallography, Crystal Research and Technology Volume 55 No. 5 (May 2020)
• Co-guest editor Special issue Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 230, on mathematical crystallography (décembre 2015).
• Co-guest editor special issue Acta Crystallographica, A70 on mathematical crystallography (décembre 2014)
• Guest editor, special issue, Acta Crystallographica, A62(2) on mathematical crystallography (mars 2006)

Fonctions récentes

• Chair of the Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-MaThCryst) (2005-2014)
• Member of the executive Committee of the European Crystallographic Association (2006-2012)
• Consultant of the Commission on Crystallography on Art and Cultural Heritage of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-CrysAC) (2008-2011)
• Secretary of the SIG (Special Interest Group) #5 (Mineral and Inorganic Crystallography) of the l’European Crystallographic Association (ECA) (1999-2011)
• Head of the CRISP team, CRM2 laboratory (2009-2017)
• Member of the selection committee of the twelfth Ewald Prize
• Member of the committee of de fourth Panalytical Award
• Membre of the committee of the 2017 Patterson Award
• Member of the international advisory board, XXI International Mineralogical Congress
• Member of the program committee, XXIII International Crystallographic Congress
• Member of the Council of the Doctoral School on Molecular Physics and Chemistry

Invited talks at recent main conferences

• Plenary speaker at the χ-mag 2018, Nara, Japan (25 to 28 July 2018)
• Keynote speaker at the 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (21 to 28 August 2017)
• Invited speaker at the 14th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA 2016), Hanoi, Vietnam, 4-7 December 2016, MS18.IN05
• Invited speaker at the 2016 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia, USA, 8-12 May 2016
• Invited speaker at the 28th European Crystallographic Meeting, Warwick, UK, 25-29 August 2013.
• Invited speaker at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, 9-12 June 2013, Philadelphia (USA)

Awards, distinctions and grants

• The Mineralogical Society of Japan research paper award of the year 2000
• Prime d’Excellence Scientifique (Scientific Excellence Award), 2010
• Cooperative Research Project, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2015 and 2016

Organization of and lecturer at international workshops

• Crystallography at the start of the 21st century: Mathematical and Symmetry Aspects. Satellite conference of the 22nd European Crystallographic Meeting, 24-26 August 2004, Budapest, Hungary
• Satellite conference of the 23rd European Crystallographic Meeting, 4-6 August 2006, Leuven, Belgium
• Satellite conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association, 18-19 November 2006, Tsukuba (Japan)
• Satellite conference of the 24th European Crystallographic Meeting, August 2007, Marrakech, Morocco
• Satellite conference of the 25th European Crystallographic Meeting, 14-16 August 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
• Satellite conference of the 26th European Crystallographic Meeting, 27-29 August 2010, Darmstadt, Germany
• Satellite Workshop of the 22nd congress of the International Union of Crystallography, 31 August – 3 September 2011, Bilbao, Spain
• Workshop on Mathematical Crystallography, 2-6 November 2011, Manila (Philippines)
• Workshop on Crystallographic Software, 12-16 December 2011, Tokyo, Japan
• Workshop on Symmetry relationships between crystal structures with application to structural phase transitions, Banaras, India, 27-31 October 2014.
• Second Workshop on Mathematical Crystallography, 20-24 May 2017, Manila (Philippines)
• IUCr 2017 Satellite, 30 August – 4 September 2017, Rourkela, India
• Satellite conference of the 32th European Crystallographic Meeting, 16-18 August 2019, Wien, Austria

Organization of and lecturer at international schools

International Schools on Fundamental Crystallography, ongoing series in Latin America

• Hanava, Cuba, 15 – 20 July 2007
• Montevideo, Uruguay, 29 November – 3 December 2010
• Uberlândia, Brazil, 25 November – 2 December 2012
• La Plata, Argentina, 27 April – 2 May 2014
• Hanava, Cuba, 30 October – 5 November 2016
• Bogotà, Colombia, 26 November – 1^st December 2018
• Lima, Peru, 12 – 16 August 2024

International Schools on Fundamental Crystallography, ongoing series in South Africa

• Bloemfontein, 12 – 16 April 2010
• Bloemfontein, 25 – 29 August 2014

Training course in symmetry and group theory, ongoing series in Japan

• Tsukuba, 15-17 August 2014
• Tsukuba, 9-13 March 2015
• Osaka, 3-7 August 2015
• Tsukuba, 7-11 March 2016
• Tsukuba, 1-5 August 2016
• Tsukuba, 6-10 March 2017
• Tsukuba, 31 July – 4 August 2017
• Tsukuba, 6-10 August, 2018
• Tsukuba, 22-26 July, 2019 (English course), 29 July – 2 August, 2019 (Japanese course)
• J-Physics summer school, Koyasan University, 5-9 August, 2019
• Tsukuba, 13-17 September, 2021
• Tsukuba, 22-26 August 2022
• Tsukuba, 10-14 July 2023 (English version), 18-21 July 2023 (Advanced course), 24-28 July 2023 (Japanese version)
• Tsukuba, 22-26 July 2024 (English version), 29 July – 2 August 2024 (Japanese version)

Other schools

• Summer school, Nancy, France, 15-20 July 2007
• Summer school, Gargnano, Italy, 27 April – 2 May 2008
• Crystallography online: International School on the use and application of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server, Lekeitio, Spain, 21-27 June 2009
• Schools on Topological Crystal Chemistry and on the Irreducible Representations of Space Groups, Nancy, France, 21 June – 2 July 2010
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, Mahdia, Tunisia, 9-13 April 2012
• School on Fundamental Crystallography, Glulechitza, Bulgaria, 30 September – 5 October 2013
• International School on Fundamental Crystallography with applications to Electron Crystallography, 27 June – 2 July 2016, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Polymorphism, stability and phase transitions in crystals: theory, experiments and applications. AIC School 2016, 7-11 September 2016, Rimini, Italy
• Shanghai International Crystallographic School, 11-17 June 2017, Shanghai, China
• International Autumn School on Fundamental and Electron Crystallography, Sofia, Bulgaria, 8-13 October 2017
• Summer school, Nancy, France, 3-7 June 2019
• Second Shanghai International Crystallographic School 1-7 July 2019, Shanghai (China)
• The AIC International Crystallography School 2021 Fundamentals of Crystallography: the theory behind the crystal structure solution, online, 31 August – 4 September 2021
• 2022 Spring Festival Crystallographic School and Workshop on Crystal-field Applications University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, online school, 1-14 February 2022
• Third Shanghai International Crystallographic School 14-21 June 2024, Shanghai (China)

Membership

• International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Associate
• European Crystallographic Association (ECA)
• Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences (JAMS)
• Crystallographic Society of Japan (CrSJ)
• Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
• Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie (SFMC) (site in French)
• Association Française de Cristallographie (AFC) (site in French)
• Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP) (site in Italian)
• Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) (site in Italian)

Others Associations and Organizations

• Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft
• International Vegetarian Union, Patron – lifetime membership
• L214
• CRAC Europe
• Kokopelli
• SOS Éducation
• Union Nationale Inter-universitaire
• Debout la France, departemental secretary, Meurthe-et-Moselle
• Unis pour Nancy, President
• Anticor

Languages

Italian (mother tongue), Japanese (NS, level 1), French (TCF level C2), English