Marta Losada
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Marta Losada Falk is a Colombian high energy physicist, a pioneer of physics in Colombia, and the president of Antonio Nariño University.
She should be distinguished from her mother, American-born Colombian mathematician María Falk de Losada, who was rector of Antonio Nariño University from 2001 to 2010.
Losada earned a bachelor's and master's degree in physics at the National University of Colombia, where her mother was a mathematics professor.[1][2] She completed her Ph.D. at Rutgers University in the US, and was a postdoctoral researcher at CERN from 1997 to 1999.[2] She has also studied in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[3]
She has worked at Antonio Nariño University since 2000, initially as Director of the Basic and Applied Science Research Center and then as National Director for Research from 2004 to 2014. She became president of the university in 2010,[2][3] replacing her mother as head of the university.[3]
Losada holds the position of International Councilor on the board of directors of the American Physical Society.[2]
