Tomonori Tamura was born in Awaji Island of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1985.
He obtained his Ph.D. in 2013 from Kyoto University under the guidance of Professor Itaru Hamachi.
He then joined Professor Kouhei Tsumoto's group in the University of Tokyo as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral research fellow.
During this time he went to US to study glycoproteomics in the laboratory of Professor Linda Hsieh-Wilson at California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
In 2014, he returned to Kyoto University as an assistant professor.
In 2019, he was promoted to a junior associate professor.
In 2025, he was promoted to an associate professor.
His research interests include proteomics, protein engineering and chemical biology.