Professor Kitamori is Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (1998-present). He was Vice President of the University of Tokyo responsible for Human Resource Development and Internationalization (2012-14), after serving as Dean of Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering.

  Prior to joining the University of Tokyo in 1989, he was a researcher at Hitachi's Energy Research Lab.

  His areas of research are Micro/Extended-Nano Fluidics, Extended-Nano Space Chemistry, and Applied Laser Spectroscopy for Analytical Chemistry. He has received numerous honors for his innovative research, including CSJ Award(Chemical Society of Japan ) and CHEMINAS Award(the Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems) in 2019, Simon-Widmer Award（Swiss Chemical Society）in 2017, IBM Faculty Award in 2017 and 2008, and the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award in 2009.　He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Lund University in 2016.

  He served as a senior vice president of The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (2006-2008) and served as an associate editor of “Analyst “ (RSC) (2011-present).