The United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has revealed the names of the 120 members and 23 international members who will be part of its shortlist, in recognition of their outstanding and continuing achievements in scientific research. (Read: “ChatGPT and the like, a danger to humanity”: Ex-Google Employee)
“Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,565 and the total number of international members to 526,” the organization said. “International members are non-voting members of the Academy, who hold citizenship outside the United States.”
Among those chosen was Colombian physicist Ana María Rey, who participated in the Elders mission set up by the then President of Colombia, Ivan Duque. She is a physicist from the University of Los Andes, holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and a postdoctoral residency at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center.
He specialized in natural sciences and studied quantum mechanics through cold atoms and the physical foundations of studying materials that conduct electricity and others.
The aim of his work is to use these systems to make highly accurate measuring instruments, for example, the best existing atomic clocks, as quantum simulators of highly correlated matter and to create a quantum computer.
Recipient of awards such as the “APS Fellow” of the American Physical Society and the Presidential Scientist Award from the White House. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The National Academy of Sciences was established by an Act of the United States Congress in 1863 and is a White House advisory society and an honorary scientific society.
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