Nadya Mason

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Nadya Mason
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Scientific career
FieldsSuperconductivity

Quantum Computing

Nanomaterials
Institutions
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]

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Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

Research

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.[ third-party 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 ]

Service and outreach

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]

Honors and awards

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]

Personal life

As of a September 2011 interview, Mason was indicated as being married (husband, Dillon), and having two daughters. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 JBHE Staff (August 14, 2023). "The Next Leader of the School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago". Journal of Blacks in Higher Education . Retrieved August 31, 2024.
  2. 1 2 UChicago News Staff (July 24, 2023). "Physicist Nadya Mason Appointed Dean of Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering". UChicago News (News.UChicago.edu). Retrieved August 31, 2024.
  3. ↑ Betancourt-Martinez, Gabriele (February 5, 2023). "1400 Degrees: Exploring the Universe of Materials with Nadya Mason". Heising-Simons Foundation. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  4. ↑ Mason, Nadya & I-MRSEC Staff (2018). "Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center: People". MRSEC.Illinois.edu. Urbana, IL: UIUC I-MRSEC. Archived from the original on February 19, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ OVCRI Staff (July 28, 2022). "Nadya Mason Named Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology". research.illinois.edu. Urbana, IL: UIUC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (OVCRI). Retrieved November 4, 2022.
  6. ↑ Clayton, Daja (August 31, 2022). "Dr. Nadya Mason becomes Beckman Institute' first woman of color Director". WAND-TV. Retrieved November 4, 2022.
  7. ↑ McClure, Julie (August 31, 2022). "Checking in with Nadya Mason, the new Director of Beckman Institute : Culture : Smile Politely". www.smilepolitely.com. Retrieved November 4, 2022.
  8. 1 2 NAS Staff (April 26, 2021). "National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members - Including a Record Number of Women - and International Members" . Retrieved August 31, 2024. 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
  9. ↑ NAS Staff (July 4, 2021). "Member Directory". Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  10. ↑ Mason, Nadya & Baccouche, Aziza [draziza1] (2008). Profile of Dr. Nadya Mason (streaming video). Washington, DC: Azia Productions. Retrieved February 7, 2018.[ full citation needed ]
  11. 1 2 3 Williams, Aubrie & Mason, Nadya (September 7, 2011). "Chambana Mom to Know: Nadya Mason" (interview). ChambanaMoms.com. Retrieved February 7, 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. 1 2 Hyman, Paul (December 2, 2009). "Nadya Mason: From Pirouettes to Carbon Nanotubes". Communications of the ACM. New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  13. 1 2 Harvard MRSEC Staff (February 7, 2018). "Dr. Nadya Mason". www.mrsec.harvard.edu. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  14. ↑ Mason, Nadya (August 2001). Superconductor-metal-insulator transitions in two dimensions (PhD dissertation). Stanford University. Bibcode:2001PhDT.......241M. ISBN   978-0-493-40427-1. ProQuest   304727938.
  15. ↑ Goad, Angela (April 12, 2024). "Women in STEM: Nadya Mason" (vblog transcript). Introductions Necessary. Retrieved April 21, 2024. See also the Women in STEM, Season One: By Air Date, entry for April 12, 2024, for the details of the citation.
  16. ↑ "Dr Nadya Mason". Harvard College MRSEC. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  17. 1 2 3 4 Mason, Nadya & APS Staff (2014). "About APS: Nadya Mason, University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2017 General Councilor, Biographical Summary". American Physical Society . College Park, MD: American Center for Physics - APS. Archived from the original on February 8, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  18. 1 2 Schwink, Siv (October 21, 2014). "Mason named John Bardeen Scholar". Physics.Illinois.edu. Urbana, IL: UIUC Department of Physics. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  19. ↑ Mason, Nadya & Vilfranc, Chrystelle [#VanguardSTEM Staff, compiled by] (February 8, 2017). "#WCWinSTEM: Nadya Mason, Ph.D." Vanguard: Conversations with Women of Color in STEM (VanguardSTEM.com). VanguardSTEM. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  20. ↑ Paaske, J.; Rosch, A.; Wölfle, P.; Mason, N.; Marcus, C. M.; Nygård, J. (2006). "Non-equilibrium singlet–triplet Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes". Nature Physics. 2 (7): 460–464. arXiv: cond-mat/0602581 . Bibcode:2006NatPh...2..460P. doi:10.1038/nphys340. ISSN   1745-2481. S2CID   10840835.
  21. ↑ Mason, Nadya (May 20, 2016). "Superconductivity on the edge". Science. 352 (6288): 891–892. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..891M. doi:10.1126/science.aaf6604. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   27199401. S2CID   206649295.
  22. ↑ NSBP Staff (February 19, 2017). "The National Society of Black Physicists honors Dr. Nadya Mason". National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). Arlington, VA: NSBP. Archived from the original on February 9, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  23. ↑ Mason, Nadya & UIUC Physics Staff (2017). Saturday Physics for Everyone 2017: Nadya Mason, "How Small Can We Go? The physics behind..." (streaming video). Urbana, IL: UIUC Department of Physics. Retrieved February 7, 2018. Date of event may have been 15 November 2017.[ citation needed ]
  24. ↑ Mason, Nadya (April 15, 2020), "How to Spark Your Curiosity, Scientifically", TED.com, retrieved October 20, 2020
  25. ↑ AmAcad Staff & Mason, Nadya (2021). "Member Directory, Professor Nadya Mason, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign". AmAcad.org. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
  26. ↑ APS Staff (August 31, 2024). "Edward A. Bouchet Award, Recent Recipients, Nadya Mason, 2020 recipient". American Physical Society (APS.org). College Park, MD: American Center for Physics - APS. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  27. ↑ Schwink, Siv (October 1, 2018). "Nadya Mason elected APS Fellow". Physics.Illinois.edu. Urbana, IL: UIUC Department of Physics. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
  28. ↑ Schwink, Siv (April 29, 2013). "Nadya Mason and Mark Neubauer win Dean's Award for Excellence in Research". Physics.Illinois.edu. Urbana, IL: UIUC Department of Physics. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  29. ↑ APS Staff (August 31, 2024). "Maria Goeppert Mayer Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in Physics, Recent Recipients, Nadya Mason, 2012 recipient". American Physical Society (APS.org). College Park, MD: American Center for Physics - APS. Retrieved August 31, 2024. One must click on the "See all recipients" link below the 2020 recipient, to reveal this information.
  30. 1 2 3 AnitaB.org Staff & Mason, Nadya (2009). "ABIE Award Winners, Denice Denton: Nadya Mason, 2009 Winner of the Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award". AnitaB.org . Sacramento, CA. Archived from the original on October 4, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2018. 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.
  31. ↑ Mason, Nadya & AnitaB.org Staff (2009). Nadya Mason, 2009 Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award Winner (streaming video). Sacramento, CA: AnitaB.org . Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  32. 1 2 Mason, Nadya & the Committee on Frontiers of Materials Research: A Decadal Survey, National Materials and Manufacturing Board, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2019). "Appendix C, Committee Biographies". Frontiers of Materials Research: A Decadal Survey. Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and The National Academies Press. p. 260. doi:10.17226/25244. ISBN   978-0-309-48387-2 . Retrieved August 31, 2024. Dr. Mason has received multiple awards for her work, including an NSF CAREER award and a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Award, and she was honored as an "Emerging Scholar" by Diverse Magazine in 2008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) The DOI for the overall volume is this.
  33. ↑ NSF Staff (January 18, 2011). "Award Abstract # 0644674, CAREER: Tuning Transport in Nanostructures". National Science Foundation (NSF.gov). Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation . Retrieved February 7, 2018.
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