Teruo Ono received the B.S., M.S., and D.Sc. from Kyoto University in 1991, 1993, and 1996, respectively.

After a one year stay as a postdoctoral associate at Kyoto University, he moved to Keio University where he became an assistant professor. In 2000, he moved to Osaka University where he became a lecturer and an associate professor. Since 2004, he has been working at Kyoto University, where he is now a professor.

He served as Co-Chair of the 8th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML) in 2013, Conference Co-Chair of the 24th International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces (ICMFS) in 2022, and in the program committees of various international conferences on magnetism and spintronics. He is a Chief Executive Editor of Applied Physics Express and the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. He is a fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics and a fellow of the Magnetics Society of Japan. He is President of the Magnetics Society of Japan. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Magnetics Society in 2017.