Ana Maria Rey
Theorist Ana Maria Rey has received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, or 鈥淕enius Grant.鈥 She is the third JILA Fellow to win a genius grant, joining Deborah Jin (2003) and Margaret Murnane (2000). The MacArthur Fellowship includes a $625,000 unrestricted grant. Rey was cited for being an 鈥渁tomic Physicist advancing our ability to simulate, manipulate, and control novel states of matter through fundamental conceptual research on ultra-cold atoms.鈥