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Ainissa Ramirez’s Biography

Ainissa Ramirez, Ph.D., is an award-winning scientist and science communicator, who is the author of" The Alchemy of Us" (MIT Press). A graduate of Brown University, she earned her doctorate in materials science and engineering from Stanford. Dr. Ramirez began her career as a scientist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and was later an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Yale. She has written for Forbes, Time, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Nature, and Science and has explained science headlines on CBS, CNN, NPR, and PBS. She speaks widely on the topics of science and technology and gave a TED talk on the importance of science education. (www.ainissaramirez.com)