2nd Annual Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
January 16 - January 18, 2009
Speaker: Nadya Mason
BIOGRAPHY:
Nadya Mason, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University in 1995 and her doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 2001. Prior to joining the physics faculty at Illinois, Professor Mason was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. A condensed matter experimentalist, Mason focuses on how electrons behave in low-dimensional materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nano-structured superconductors. Her research is relevant to the fundamental physics of small systems, as well as to applications involving nano-scale electronic elements. Mason was a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2007 and was named a 2008 Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. Besides her academic commitments, Mason takes a deep interest in increasing the diversity and inclusiveness of the physics community and in attracting young people to science.
