Nadya Mason Named Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Nadya Mason, the Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor of Physics, will become the next leader of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on September 1, pending approval from the Board of Trustees. Mason, who has been at Illinois since 2005, is an experimental physicist who works at the intersection of complex materials, superconductivity, and nanotechnology.