Nadya Mason

Nadya Mason is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems. She is a former competitive gymnast who was a member of the US National Team.

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/

Education

Mason was born in New York City, and lived in Brooklyn for the first six years of her life.[1] She grew up in Washington, D.C. before moving to Houston.[1] In 1986 she trained as a gymnast with Bela Karolyi and competed as a member of the U.S. National Team.[2] Mason always enjoyed maths and science, and completed several science focused internships during her education,[3] including a fellowship in condensed matter at Bell Laboratories. She completed a bachelor's degree at Harvard University in 1995.[4] In 2001 she earned a PhD under Aharon Kapitulnik at Stanford University.[5]

Research

Mason returned to Harvard as a MRSEC Postdoctoral Fellow in 2001, where she was elected to the Society of Junior Fellows.[4] In 2005 Mason joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[6] Her research focuses on carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanostructured semiconductors and topological insulators.[7][6] In these systems she concentrates on electron interactions, and how to apply her understanding to quantum computing.[2][8] 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.[9]

In 2006 she demonstrated the non-equilibrium Kondo effect and in 2011 observed individual superconducting bound states in graphene-based systems.[10][11] In 2014 Mason was appointed a John Bardeen Faculty Scholar in Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[10] In 2016 she was appointed to full Professor.[12]

Nadya Mason is a General Councillor for the American Physical Society.[6] 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.[13] She has two children.[14]

Honours and awards

2020 - Edward Bouchet Award, American Physical Society[15]

2013 - Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign[16]

2012 - Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society[17]

2009 - Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards[18]

2008 - Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow [19]

2008 - Diverse Magazine "Emerging Scholar" [19]

2007 - National Science Foundation CAREER award[20]

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