Colombian physicists

Ophelia Pastrana Ardila (born 4 October 1982) is a Colombian-Mexican transgender physicist, economist, speaker, YouTuber, technologist and comedian. She has resided in Mexico for many years.

Marta Losada Falk is a Colombian high energy physicist, a pioneer of physics in Colombia, and the president of Antonio Nariño University [es].

Fernando Pérez is a Colombian-American physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation and for his work on Project Jupyter for which he received the 2017 ACM Software System Award . He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization.

Ángela Stella Camacho Beltrán (born 5 February, 1947), is a Colombian physicist and president of the Colombian Network of Women Scientists. Camacho's main work is in the fields of condensed matter physics, solid state physics, and low-dimensional physics. She was the first Colombian woman to obtain a PhD in physics.

Alexandra Olaya-Castro is a Colombian-born theoretical physicist, currently a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. She is also the Vice-Dean (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) for the Mathematical and Physical science Faculty.

Eduardo Posada Flórez (born 1942) is a Colombian physicist and the executive director of COMSATS’ Centre of Excellence in Colombia, the International Centre of Physics (CIF), and is the chairperson of COMSATS’ Coordinating Council, comprising the Heads of Centres of Excellence.

Jesús Emilio Ramírez González (1904–1981) was a Colombian geophysicist and seismologist. Born in Yolombó, Antioquia, he earned a M.S. (1931) and PhD (1939) at Saint Louis University under James B. Macelwane. In the late 1930, he and Macelwane invented a system with that was able to track storms out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean using seismographs. He was able to show that "microseisms were traveling, rather than standing waves and that their origins could be traced to storms at sea". With Spanish meteorologist Simón Sarasola he co-founded the Geophysical Institute of the Colombian Andes and was its director for 38 years. He was a president of the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas and the Centro Regional de Sismologia de America del Sur (CERESIS) The Jesús Emilio Ramírez González Planetarium of Medellín is named for him.

Yu Takeuchi (竹内 悠, Takeuchi Yū) (Tokyo, 16 March 1927 - Bogotá, 25 December 2014) was a Colombian nationalized Japanese physicist and mathematician, teacher and promoter of mathematics in Colombia.