Professor Jason Kawasaki

Jason Kawasaki is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research group focuses on the epitaxial synthesis of magnetic and topological materials, especially Heusler compounds. He received a BSE in Mechanical Engineering with a certificate in Materials Science and Engineering from Princeton (2009) and Ph.D. in Materials from UC Santa Barbara (2014). From 2014-2016 he was a Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He began at UW-Madison in 2016. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, ARO and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, and a DARPA Young Faculty Award.