Ask me anything: Nadya Mason ‘I find myself looking at everything as systems of equations’

Nadya Mason is dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) at the University of Chicago, US, where her research into quantum materials focuses on the electronic properties of nanoscale and correlated systems, including nanoscale wires, atomically thin membranes and nanostructured superconductors. Elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021, she also received the American Physical Society’s Edward A Bouchet Award in 2020, which recognizes distinguished physicists from underrepresented communities who have made significant contributions to physics research and to the advancement of minority scientists