Nadya Mason

Nadya Mason is the Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor in Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Professor Mason's research at Illinois focuses on how electrons behave in low-dimensional, correlated materials, where enhanced interactions are expected to give novel results. She has worked to unravel persistent unsolved problems in transport in low-dimensional systems at the quantum limit and, making marked contribution to the understanding of anomalous metallic states that originate from fragile superconductors. Her work is relevant to a variety of technologies, including quantum communication, information storage, and qubit control in quantum computers.

She received her bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1995 and received her doctorate in physics in 2001 from Stanford University, working in the group of Aharon Kapitulnik. Her thesis research was on phase transitions in two-dimensional superconductors. Prior to joining the physics faculty at Illinois, Mason was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, where she collaborated with Professors Charles Marcus and Michael Tinkham on projects related to both carbon nanotubes and nanostructured superconductors.