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.


She has authored several books. Her most recent is one that examines how technology shaped culture. It is called The Alchemy of Us.

gollark: Why did dan200 think it was a good idea to make `shell` do require and packagey stuff?!
gollark: Ah, it seems that it has a `package.path` thing somewhere.
gollark: Please hold on while I dredge through æons of weird CC code.
gollark: I know how the shell path bit works, just not the require bit.
gollark: I basically want to make the shell run programs from `/bin` and `require` use `/lib` without the hacks potatOS employs.

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. url=https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6235/726
  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.
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