Ainissa Ramirez
Materials scientist and science communicator
Ainissa Ramirez is an American materials scientist and science communicator. She is the author of The Alchemy of Us.
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American Born 1969 in New York City, United States
About Ainissa Ramirez
Ainissa Ramirez studied materials science at Brown and Stanford universities. She later held a research post at Bell Labs and taught as a professor at Yale. As a child, she took the idea of becoming a scientist from the public television show 3-2-1 Contact. Ramirez has written for Time, Scientific American and Forbes, among other publications, and has explained science on PBS, CBS, CNN and NPR. She has also given a TED talk about why science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education matters. She hosts a short podcast called Science Underground. Her book The Alchemy of Us was published in 2021 by MIT Press and has won an award.