Julia Ramírez González

Experience

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  Franquicia Kumon México

  Aug 2010 - Dec 2010

  Class Assistant

  • Accurately pull, date, mark and record student's work.• Instruct early learners and develop the work skills of our newly enrolled students.• Liaising with and maintaining positive working relationships with parents.• Perform observations of students and providing concise feedback to the Instructor.• General administration duties as and when requested by line the manager

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  ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara

  Aug 2013 - Jun 2014

  Intern at the Mechanical Engineering Department

  • Designed and fabrication of CanSat (small aircraft) for weather monitoring. Involving material selection for rough environments and protection of the power, communication and sensor systems, along with analysis of the measured data• External consultancy to identify areas of improvement of a two-stroke engine. This was performed by CAD modelling and simulation

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  Universidad de Guadalajara, CUCEI

  Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  Placement at the Project Engineering Department

  Project: Fabrication and characterisation of dye-sensitised solar cells• Extraction of natural dyes and thin film deposition • Efficiency calculation by filling factor

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  The University of Sheffield

  Mar 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Liaise with senior colleagues regarding contributions to module development, planning of teaching and monitoring student progress• Assist in the delivery of classes/tutorials within an established programme of study based on defined objectives• Act as a technical demonstrator providing practical laboratory classes, e.g demonstrations, running samples and experiments, providing skills and instruction• Assist in the organisation and running of examination/assessment activity and carry out related marking under direction of senior colleagues• Laboratory demonstration for foundation, 1st and 2nd year undergraduate students- Materials Lab Sessions : Cement making and testing, Atomic Structures, Electrical Materials, Nylon Testing, Study of Binary Eutectic Alloy of Sn and Bi, Magnetic Materials, Gas Law and SEM/EDX- Analytics Lab Session: Working with Solutions, Investigation of Ion Exchange, Water Crystallisation and Clean Energy- Multidisciplinary Labs: Data Visualisation, Graphs and Documents, Motion and Energy, EMF and Ohms Law and Resistivity• Tutorial sessions:- Deformable solids, MechEng 2nd year students- Individual Project for Science and Engineering, Foundation Year Show less Part of the Functional Materials and Devices Research Group and The Centre of Doctoral Training in Energy Storage and its ApplicationsProject: Synthesis and Electrical Characterisation of Calcia-Stabilised Zirconia and doped Alumina Ceramics. Supervisor: Prof. Anthony R. West• Synthesis and characterisation of bulk ceramics• Set up of flash sintering facility. Close collaboration with the Health and Safety Office and technicians. Management duties: progress record, budget administration and purchase decisions. Documentation: Risk Assessments, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health forms and Standard Operation Procedures• Proactive attitude to forge an industrial collaboration which involved:o Analysis of the electrical properties of commercial relevant sampleso Effective communication with industrial partners by meetings and progress reports• Oral and poster presentation in 14 conferences/meetings Show less

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2018 - Dec 2020

  • Doctoral Researcher

    Sept 2016 - Sept 2020

  • Student Ambassador

    Mar 2016 - Sept 2017
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  KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation

  May 2021 - Dec 2021

  Development Engineer - KTP Associate at The University of Sheffield

  Research and Development of next generation multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)• Fabrication of MLCCs by tape-casting and screen printing• Electrical characterisation by impedance spectroscopy• Modelling of the sample’s behaviour by Finite Elemental Analysis• Transparent communication with the industrial research and development team for sample identification

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  The University of Sheffield

  Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

  Postdoctoral Research Assistant

  • Characterisation of high temperature dielectric materials for multilayer ceramic capacitors applications• Collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Durham, Manchester and Warwick

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  The Faraday Institution

  Mar 2022 - Sept 2023

  Research Fellow
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  University of Oxford

  Mar 2022 - now

  • Part of the Faraday Institution funded project Nextrode in collaboration with 6 universities• Development of low energy intensive manufacturing routes for battery electrodes• Design and implementation of a characterisation technique to take in-situ voltage measurements during battery cycling• Collaboration with Engineering Department to validate electrochemical model

  • Senior Project Manager @ Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI)

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Project Manager @ National Nuclear User Facility (NNUF)

    Sept 2023 - Oct 2024

  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant

    Mar 2022 - Sept 2023