Between 2004 and 2007 he headed the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo.

On April 1, 2022 he assumed the position of President of Japan Science and Technology Agency.

[4] In 2006 Hashimoto received the Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize for his research on titanium dioxide photocatalyst.

[5] Hashimoto spent most of his career at the University of Tokyo, where he earned BSc (1978), MSc (1980) and PhD (1985) degrees in physical chemistry.

After that he lectured at the University of Tokyo, where in 1997 he was promoted to full professor, and in 2004 became Director of Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.