Ana Maria Rey

Ana Maria Rey
Born	1976/1977 (age 39–40) Bogotá, Colombia
Residence	Boulder, Colorado
Nationality	Colombian
Thesis	Ultracold bosonic atoms loaded in optical lattices (2004)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Clark
Notable awards	MacArthur Fellowship, Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award
Children	Nicolás

Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist, professor at University of Colorado at Boulder and a JILA fellow. Noted for her research into ultra-cold atoms, she was awarded a "Genius" grant in 2013 by the MacArthur Foundation and the 2014 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society.

Rey earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá in 1999. On July 29, 2000, Rey got married. Two days later, she immigrated to the United States. She got her Ph.D. in physics at University of Maryland in 2004. She went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.