Ainissa Ramirez

Ainissa Ramirez (born January 5, 1969) is an American materials scientist and science communicator.[1]

Education

Ramirez earned a Sc.B. in Materials Science from Brown University in 1990. She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 1998.

Career

Ramirez has been a visiting professor at MIT. From 2003 to 2011 she was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Science Department at Yale University,[2] where she taught an undergraduate course entitled "Introduction to Materials Science". [3] Prior to being on the faculty at Yale, for 4 years she was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.

She co-developed [4] a "universal solder" that can bond metal to glass, ceramics, diamond, and semiconductor oxide substrates.[5]

Upon not being granted tenure after 10 years at Yale, Ramirez became a self-declared "science evangelist".[6]

She hosts two short science video series called Science Xplained and Material Marvels. In 2004, she founded Science Saturdays, a program of entertaining science lectures for middle school children.[7]

She is the 2015 winner of the Andrew Gemant award, which is sponsored by the American Institute of Physics.

Her journey of being a science evangelist was published in Science Magazine.

References

  1. ↑ Buford, Katherine. "From Yawn to Dawn of New Scientific Frontiers in Tech: Q&A with TED Lecturer Ainissa Ramirez". Silicon Angle. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Manaster, Joanne (January 31, 2012). "Material Marvels in Video". Scientific American. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.eng.yale.edu/Framirezlab/Framirez_cv_2010.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.google.com/patents/US6306516?dq=ainissa+ramirez&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&pjf=1&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCWoVChMIw5icjajoxwIVSo8NCh1kpwOH
  5. ↑ "Innovators Under 35: Ainissa G. Ramirez". MIT Technology Review. 2003. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  6. ↑ url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?
  7. ↑ Paquelet, Grace (November 16, 2011). "Spreading a Passion for Science". Yale Scientific Magazine.

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