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Nadya Mason | |
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Fields | Superconductivity Quantum Computing Nanomaterials |
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Thesis | Superconductor-metal-insulator transitions in two dimensions (2001) |
Nadya Mason is dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at The University of Chicago, receiving that appointment in October 2023. [1] [2] Prior to joining The University of Chicago, she was the Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [3] As a condensed matter experimentalist, she works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems.[ not verified in body ] Mason was the Director of the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC),[ when? ] and Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology from September 2022 through September 2023.[ not verified in body ] [4] [5] She was the first woman and woman of color to work as the director at the institute.[ not verified in body ] [6] [7] In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [8] [9]
As she described herself in interview, Mason was born in New York City,[ when? ] and lived in Brooklyn for the first six years of her life; after that, she grew up in Washington, D.C. before moving to Houston. [10] [ full citation needed ] As described to Aubrie Williams in interview, Mason spent from ages 7–16 ("most of my childhood") involved in gymnastics at a highly competitive level, making the Junior National Team at age 13, and ranking 27th nationally at age 15. [11] This period of intensive training included a year (1986) spent with Bela Karolyi, [12] a demanding course she ultimately set aside to pursue science. [11]
Mason completed a bachelor's degree at Harvard University in 1995, [13] and a PhD under Aharon Kapitulnik at Stanford University in 2001. [14] Mason always enjoyed math and science, and completed several science-focused internships during her education, [15] including a fellowship in condensed matter at Bell Laboratories.[ when? ] [16]
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Mason returned to Harvard as a MRSEC Postdoctoral Fellow in 2001, where she was elected junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. [13] In 2005, Mason joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as an assistant professor. [17] In 2014 she was appointed a John Bardeen Faculty Scholar in Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [18] In 2016 she was promoted to full Professor. [19] As of 2018, Mason was a General Councillor for the American Physical Society. [17]
On October 1, 2023, Mason was appointed Dean of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, succeeding Matthew J. Tirrell. [1] [2]
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In 2006, Mason was on a team that was first to demonstrate the non-equilibrium Kondo effect, and in 2011 she was on a team that observed individual superconducting bound states in graphene-based systems.[ independent source needed ] [18] [20] In the 2014-2018 period, Mason's research focused on carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanostructured semiconductors and topological insulators. [17] [21] In these systems she has concentrated on electron interactions, and how to apply her understanding to quantum computing. [17] [12] [ needs update ]
As of 2017, Mason was Chair of the APS Committee on Minorities, and was featured by the National Society of Black Physicists for Black History Month in 2017. [22] Also in 2017, she discussed the limit on the size of electronics and impact of novel nanomaterials on the "Saturday Physics for Everyone 2017" program of the UIUC YouTube channel. [23]
In November 2019, Mason gave a TED talk called, "How to spark your creativity, scientifically." [24]
Mason is also described as having been named a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow, the dates of which is unclear from the sources. [30] [32]
As of a September 2011 interview, Mason was indicated as being married (husband, Dillon), and having two daughters. [11]
Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are: …Mason, Nadya; director, Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor in Physics, department of physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nadya has received multiple awards for her work, including a National Science Foundation CAREER award and a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Award, and she was honored as an "Emerging Scholar" by Diverse Magazine in 2008.