Shamima Karim Choudhury (born February 12, 1951) is a Bangladeshi physicist, academician, researcher, and women-in-science advocate.

[citation needed] Choudhury worked as the Provost of Rokeya Hall, Dhaka University from October 1999 to February 2002.

She served as a member of the advisory committee of Semiconductor Technology Research Centre (STRC), University of Dhaka from 1993 to 2016.

She also served as the Director, Bose Centre for Advanced Study & Research In Natural Sciences, University of Dhaka, from March 2010 to June 2017.

Prof. M. Zahid Hasan delivered Bose lecture in November 2015, in the Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate building.

In an interview with the Daily Star, she pointed out that percentage of women in physics and science are disproportionately low compared to the enrollment in medicine or other fields.

[13] Bangladesh Physical Society awards the Shamima Karim Choudhury Trust Fund Scholarship every year since 2015.

Her mother, Zohara Karim was a social worker and the vice-president of the then All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA) in Comilla.