Akio Kawasaki is a William M. and Jane D. Fairbank Postdoctoral Fellow belonging to the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory and the Department of Physics at Stanford University. He is working on a measurement of short distance gravity performed by an optically levitated sphere and a nano fabricated cantilever in Prof. Giorgio Gratta's group.
He received Ph.D. degree at Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on a spin squeezed ytterbium atomic clock at Prof. Vladan Vuletic's group in Center for Ultracold Atoms.
His research interest lies in exploring fundamental physics with AMO techniques, such as spectroscopy of atoms involving anti-particles, gravitation wave detection by atomic interferometry, and measurement of g-2 for particles, parity non-conservation in nuclei and electron EDM. Precision measurement describes his interest the best.