Professor Roberto C. Ramos is an experimental quantum mechanic and ultra-low-temperature physicist who probes the quantum properties of materials and devices. He is published in Science, Nature Communications, Physical Review, and Journal of Applied Physics and has received over $1.5M in research and education grants from the National Science Foundation and private foundations. He was Program Director of two NSF S-STEM Scholarship Programs, at Drexel University and Indiana Wesleyan University, where he was Blanchard Endowed Research Chair, a Hinds Fellow, and two-time Principium Lecture Awardee. He received Drexel University's Allan-Rothwarf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the William F. Homiller Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of the Sciences. He has advised and nurtured award-winning chapters of the Society of Physics Students across four universities, received the 2018 Outstanding SPS Advisor Award, and most recently been the faculty advisor to the Saint Joseph's University (SJU) Chapter of the Society of Physics Students. Dr. Ramos serves as Co-Director of SJU's Center for Undergraduate Research. He is an advocate of "women in STEM" and founded the "Physics Wonder Girls Program" for middle school girls, now on its tenth year and has been featured by Philadelphia's ABC, CBS, and Fox News Network. He received Second Place in the 2021 Greater Philadelphia Social Innovators Award in the category of Community Impact.
