Science Evangelist, Author, Award-Winning Scientist
Ainissa Ramirez: Biography at a Glance
- Ainissa Ramirez is a scientist who is best known as one of the world’s foremost science communicators—a “science evangelist,” as she calls it—with a message heard by millions.
- She is also the author of the award-winning book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. This book examines how technology shaped us and has been loved by readers.
- It was an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist in the category of Science and Technology. It was named one of the Best Summer Science Books of 2020 by Amazon and by Science Friday, and it was selected as one of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2020.
- This book also won the Connecticut Book Award as well as the AAAS/Subaru Book Prize.
- Ainissa was appointed the Chair in Technology and Society for the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress which brings together the world's best thinkers to contribute to the conversation about the challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.
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Ainissa Ramirez is a scientist who is best known as one of the world’s foremost science communicators—a “science evangelist,” as she calls it—with a message heard by millions. She is also the author of the award-winning book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another (The MIT Press, 2020). This book examines how technology shaped us and has been loved by readers. It was an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist in the category of Science and Technology. It was named one of the Best Summer Science Books of 2020 by Amazon and by Science Friday, and it was selected as one of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2020. This book also won the Connecticut Book Award as well as the AAAS/Subaru Book Prize.
Ainissa was appointed the Chair in Technology and Society for the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress which brings together the world's best thinkers to contribute to the conversation about the challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.
Ramirez speaks widely on the topics of science and technology and gave a TED talk on the importance of science education. She has been awarded prizes from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the American Institute of Physics. She speaks internationally on the importance of making science fun and has served as a science advisor to the American Film Institute, WGBH/NOVA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and several science museums. She also hosts a science podcast called Science Underground.
Ramirez has appeared as a technology expert on national and international media, including CBS, CNN, NPR, ESPN, The History Channel, PBS, and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Star Talk. She has also written for TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, and Scientific American. Currently, she is creating STEM-themed picture books for young children, with the intention of inspiring the next generation of scientists.
Ainissa Ramirez received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and her doctorate from Stanford, both in materials science and engineering. She began her career as a scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where she created award-winning inventions and received six patents. She then joined the faculty at Yale, where she rose to the ranks of an associate professor of mechanical engineering. It was also at Yale where she began her work in earnest as a STEM advocate and started her new career with a mission of making science understandable to audiences of all ages.
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The Alchemy of Us: How Technology Shaped Us
Storytelling & Science: How to Make Science More Relatable
Storytelling is a fundamental part of being human. Stories help us understand that information and each other, and it makes the information memorable. We all share stories — we refer to myths, folklore, and characters from TV shows to explain things to ourselves and others, and we construct internal narratives to help us make sense of the world. So how can we engage more people with science? With better science stories.
In this engagement, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez unpacks the tools used in creative nonfiction that we can all apply to make compelling science prose. As a “science evangelist”, Dr. Ramirez is intent on making science accessible and inclusive to a broad range of audiences. Her latest book, The Alchemy of Us, has been loved by readers of all ages due to her masterful skill in explaining science and her use of science stories.
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