Atsushi Fujimori received his MA degree in Linguistics from the University of Shizuoka, Japan, in 2001, and his PhD degree in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2011. He has been engaged in instructing English to undergraduate students for over ten years while empirically studying second language acquisition in Japan. He joined the Language and Communication Research Center at the University of Shizuoka as an associate professor in 2018, and he became a professor in 2022. He has been serving as the director of the language center since 2019, overseeing the university’s English education. His research interests range from L2 acquisition at syntax-interfaces to language pedagogy. He has been engaged in collaborative research with Professors Noriko Yoshimura and Mineharu Nakayama on the syntax-discourse interface. In 2022, their joint research presentation at J-SLA received the Best Oral Presentation Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Central Japan Linguistic Society from 2016 to 2019.