Nadya Mason

Nadya Mason is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a condensed matter experimentalist, she works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems. Mason is the Director of the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC).[1]

Nadya Mason
Alma materHarvard University Stanford
Scientific career
FieldsSuperconductivity

Quantum Computing

Nanomaterials
InstitutionsHarvard University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ThesisSuperconductor-metal-insulator transitions in two dimensions (2001)
Websitehttp://people.physics.illinois.edu/mason/

Personal life

Mason was born in New York City, and lived in Brooklyn for the first six years of her life. She grew up in Washington, D.C. before moving to Houston.[2] In 1986 she trained as a gymnast with Bela Karolyi and competed as a member of the U.S. National Team.[3] She currently lives in Urbana, IL, where she is a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[4] She has two daughters.[5]

Education

Mason always enjoyed math and science, and completed several science focused internships during her education,[6] including a fellowship in condensed matter at Bell Laboratories. She completed a bachelor's degree at Harvard University in 1995.[7] In 2001 she earned a PhD under Aharon Kapitulnik at Stanford University.[8]

Research

Mason returned to Harvard as a MRSEC Postdoctoral Fellow in 2001, where she was elected junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.[7] In 2005, Mason joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[9] Her research focuses on carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanostructured semiconductors and topological insulators.[10][9] In these systems she concentrates on electron interactions, and how to apply her understanding to quantum computing.[3][11] She has discussed the limit on the size of electronics and impact of novel nanomaterials for the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign YouTube channel.[12]

In 2006 she demonstrated the non-equilibrium Kondo effect and in 2011 observed individual superconducting bound states in graphene-based systems.[13][14] In 2014 Mason was appointed a John Bardeen Faculty Scholar in Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[13] In 2016 she was appointed to full Professor.[15]

Service and outreach

Nadya Mason is a General Councillor for the American Physical Society.[9] She is Chair of the APS Committee on Minorities and was featured by the National Society of Black Physicists for Black History Month in 2017.[16]

In November 2019, Mason gave a TED talk called, "How to spark your creativity, scientifically."[17]

Honors and awards

2020 - Edward Bouchet Award, American Physical Society[18]

2018 - Fellow, American Physical Society[19]

2013 - Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign[20]

2012 - Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society[21]

2009 - Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards[22]

2008 - Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow [23]

2008 - Diverse Magazine "Emerging Scholar" [23]

2007 - National Science Foundation CAREER award[24]

References
  1. "People | Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center". mrsec.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  2. draziza1 (2009-01-05), Profile of Dr. Nadya Mason, retrieved 2018-02-07
  3. Hyman, By Paul. "Nadya Mason: From Pirouettes to Carbon Nanotubes | News | Communications of the ACM". cacm.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  4. Department of Physics. "Nadya Mason | ILLINOIS PHYSICS". physics.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  5. "Chambana Mom to Know: Nadya Mason". ChambanaMoms.com. 2011-09-07. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  6. "Nadya Mason | Introductions Necessary". introductionsnecessary.com. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  7. "Dr. Nadya Mason - Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University". www.mrsec.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  8. Mason, Nadya (2001-07-01). "Superconductor-metal-insulator transitions in two dimensions". Ph.D. Thesis. Bibcode:2001PhDT.......241M.
  9. "Nadya Mason". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  10. Mason, Nadya (2016-05-20). "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.
  11. "Nadya Mason". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  12. Physics Illinois (2017-11-15), Saturday Physics for Everyone 2017: Nadya Mason, retrieved 2018-02-07
  13. Physics, Department of. "Mason named John Bardeen Scholar". Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  14. 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.
  15. "#WCWinSTEM: Nadya Mason, Ph.D." #VanguardSTEM. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  16. Roberson, Stephen. "Nadya Mason". nsbp.org. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  17. Mason, Nadya, How to spark your curiosity, scientifically, retrieved 2020-10-20
  18. "Bouchet Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  19. "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  20. Physics, Department of. "Nadya Mason and Mark Neubauer win Dean's Award for Excellence in Research". Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  21. "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  22. AnitaB_org (2010-03-02), Nadya Mason, 2009 Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award Winner, retrieved 2018-02-07
  23. "Nadya Mason - AnitaB.org". AnitaB.org. 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  24. "NSF Award Search: Award#0644674 - CAREER: Tuning Transport in Nanostructures". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
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