Ainissa Ramirez, Ph.D. is an award-winning scientist and science communicator, who is passionate about getting the general public excited about science. A graduate of Brown University, she earned her doctorate in materials science and engineering from Stanford. Dr. Ramirez started her career as a scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and later worked as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Yale. She authored the books The Alchemy of Us and Save Our Science, and co-authored Newton’s Football. She has written for Forbes, Time, The Atlantic, Scientific American, American Scientist, and Science and has explained science headlines on CBS, CNN, NPR, ESPN, and PBS.

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, 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.

Winner, Connecticut Book Award (2021) • Finalist, LA Times Book Prize (Sci&Tech) (2021) • Winner, AAAS/Subaru Science Book Prize (2021) • Brown University Book Award (2021-22) • Amazon’s Best Science Books of 2020 • Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Science Books of 2020 • Science Friday’s Best Science Books of 2020 • Science News Favorite Books of 2020 • AAAS/Subaru 2021 Young Adult Science Book Award Finalist • Big Think’s 10 Best Science and Technology Books of 2020 • Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2020

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