Hiromitsu Sawaoka

Postdoc

Lab: E8

Email: hsawaoka@berkeley.edu

Hiro earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. John Doyle at Harvard University, where he focused on laser cooling of polyatomic molecules to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. Continuing his interest in cooling and controlling complex systems, he joined the Stamper-Kurn group as a postdoc in 2025, working on laser cooling of titanium atoms.