Ainissa Ramirez
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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 Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Science Department at Yale University.[2] Prior to being on the faculty at Yale, she was a memober of technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.
She developed a "universal solder" that can bond metal to glass, ceramics, diamond, and semiconductor oxide substrates.[3]
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.[4]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Manaster, Joanne (January 31, 2012). "Material Marvels in Video". Scientific American. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ^ "Innovators Under 35: Ainissa G. Ramirez". MIT Technology Review. 2003. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ^ Paquelet, Grace (November 16, 2011). "Spreading a Passion for Science". Yale Scientific Magazine.
