Erika Kawakami obtained her engineering degree from École Centrale Marseille, France, and her M.S. from Keio University, Japan in 2011 within the framework of the double degree program. She then moved to the Netherlands to pursue her doctoral degree in the lab of Lieven Vandersypen at Delft University of Technology. Throughout her doctoral research, she worked toward the realization of a quantum computer using electrons in silicon. After obtaining her Ph.D. in 2016, she moved back to Japan and started working on electrons on helium as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Denis Konstantinov at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. In September 2020, she moved to RIKEN (Wako) as a RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader to start her own laboratory.
In her free time, she enjoys playing the saxophone🎷.
