Ainissa Ramirez

Ainissa Ramirez 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 gave a TED talk in 2012 on the main stage in Los Angeles on the importance of STEM education. She 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 four 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]

After 10 years at Yale, Ramirez made a career change from academia and 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 also produces a podcast series called Science Underground.[8]

She is the 2015 winner of the Andrew Gemant award, for doing "a brave thing" and not only producing research, but encouraging everyone to think about science. The award is sponsored by the American Institute of Physics.[8]

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

In 2020, Ramirez published the book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, which explores eight significant inventions and the little-knownn inventors behind them, particularly people of color and women.[9] The book was declared the 2020 Florida's Authors and Publisher's Association Gold Prize in Adult Non-Fiction (General)[10] and named the winner of the Young Adult Science Book Award by the 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books.[11]

References
  1. Buford, Katherine (August 2012). "From Yawn to Dawn of New Scientific Frontiers in Tech: Q&A with TED Lecturer Ainissa Ramirez". Silicon Angle. Archived from the original on 2013-06-26. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  2. Manaster, Joanne (January 31, 2012). "Material Marvels in Video". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  3. http://www.eng.yale.edu/Framirezlab/Framirez_cv_2010.pdf%5B%5D
  4. "Article comprising oxide-bondable solder".
  5. "Innovators Under 35: Ainissa G. Ramirez". MIT Technology Review. 2003. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  6. Ramirez, Ainissa (2015-05-08). "The making of a science evangelist". Science. 348 (6235): 726–726. doi:10.1126/science.348.6235.726. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25954013.
  7. Paquelet, Grace (November 16, 2011). "Spreading a Passion for Science". Yale Scientific Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
  8. Squires, Acacia (September 3, 2015). "This Teacher Wants To Excite Your Inner Scientist". All Things Considered. National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 2016-09-12. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
  9. Press, The MIT. "The Alchemy of Us | The MIT Press". mitpress.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  10. "2020 Book Awards Medalists". Florida Authors & Publishers Association. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  11. "2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize Winners Announced". AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
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