He is currently a professor at the Federal University of Rondônia, Guajará-Mirim.
Born in Algeria (then part of France), Ramirez graduated with a master's degree in Engineering from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1977.
[1] Afterwards, he obtained a Bachelor's, Master's, and doctorate degree at the University of Provence.
[2] He has lived among the Yanomami people for years and documented their language in various dissertations and monographs.
[1] One of his best-known books is Línguas Arawak da Amazônia Setentrional: Comparação e Descrição (2001).