Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist and professor at University of Colorado Boulder.

[6] Rey earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Universidad de los Andes[7] in Bogotá in 1999 with a magna cum laude distinction.

[7] She went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) at Harvard University[9] from 2005 to 2008.

After her postdoctoral position at ITAMP, she joined the University of Colorado Boulder Physics Department as an assistant research professor and JILA as an associate fellow in 2008.

Her research is often directly applicable to state-of-the-art experiments, particularly to atomic clocks,[11] quantum computing,[12] and precision measurements.