Ana Maria Rey

Ana Maria Rey pursued her graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, receiving a PhD in 2004. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 2005 to 2008. She joined JILA, NIST, and the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 2008, and she is currently a JILA and NIST fellow and a professor adjoint in the Department of Physics. Her research focuses on how to control and manipulate ultracold atoms, molecules, and trapped ions for use as quantum simulators of solid-state materials and for quantum information and precision measurements.