Miriam Rafailovich received her PhD from Stony Brook University in Applied Nuclear Physics. She then did her postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Weizmann Institute. Miriam was a professor of Physics and Astronomy at CUNY, Queens College, and is currently a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. 

Miriam is known as a pioneer in the integration of research with education. She has graduated more than 60 PhD and Master's students and mentored several hundred undergraduate and high school students from across the United States and abroad. She is the co-author of more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals and technical review articles. She is a Lady Davis Foundation Scholar and a fellow of the American Physical Society.