Nadya Mason, Ph.D.

Nadya Mason is the Dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago, where energy technologies and solutions are a main research focus. Before becoming Dean of PME, Mason was the Rosalyn S. Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she directed the Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and also served as founding director of the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Mason can also be seen promoting science on local TV, at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, and in a TED talk on “Scientific Curiosity.” She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the President’s National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee.