Ana Maria Rey | |
---|---|
Born | 1976 or 1977 (age 47–48) Bogotá, Colombia |
Alma mater | Universidad de los Andes, University of Maryland |
Children | 1[2] |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship, Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award, Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Colorado Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Thesis | Ultracold bosonic atoms loaded in optical lattices (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Clark [1] |
Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist, professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, a JILA fellow, a fellow at National Institute of Standards and Technology and a fellow of the American Physical Society.[3] Rey was the first Hispanic woman to win the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2019.[4] In 2023, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[5] She is currently the chair of DAMOP, the American Physical Society's division in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (AMO).[6]