Ainissa Ramirez

Education

Ramirez earned a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science from Brown University in 1990. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 1998.

Career

Ramirez has been a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2003 to 2011 she was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Science Department at Yale University, where she taught an undergraduate course entitled "Introduction to Materials Science". She co-developed a "universal solder" that can bond metal to glass, ceramics, diamond, and semiconductor oxide substrates. Upon not being granted tenure after 10 years at Yale, Ramirez became a self-declared "science evangelist".

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

Achievements

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

Membership

Prior to being on the faculty at Yale, for 4 years she was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.