Melissa Ramirez

Melissa is a first-generation Latina in chemistry. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted undergraduate research in the laboratory of Professor Gary Molander. In 2021, Melissa received a Ph.D. in chemistry under the direction of Professors Ken Houk and Neil Garg at the University of California, Los Angeles where she worked as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellow. She then joined the laboratory of Professor Brian Stoltz as a Caltech Presidential and NSF Ascend Postdoctoral Fellow. Melissa’s postdoctoral research focuses on reaction development and asymmetric catalysis using a combination of experiments and computations.