Ramses V. Martinez
Leader of the FlexiLab, Assistant Professor
Purdue University
United States
Biography
Ramses V. Martinez is an assistant professor at the School of Industrial Engineering and the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. His research group is primarily involved in several projects in the areas of nanomanufacturing, microfluidics, and soft robotics. Ramses grew up in Madrid, Spain, and received a degree in Applied Physics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in June 2004. He then entered an international PhD program at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in collaboration with the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ramses is author of more than 28 scientific publications and 10 patents. He has been awarded with the Fulbright Fellowship and the Marie Curie IOF grant for his postdoctoral work in the lab of Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University while he students, and served as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard University Science Center. Ramses has also been an active mentor of undergrad and graduate students and is now teaching a course on Material Science and Engineering Design at Purdue University.
Research Interest
Material Science, Nanochemistry, microfluidics, and soft robotics