[3] Michael Ramsey attended Bowling Green State University for his undergraduate studies where he obtained his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with dual minors in Physics and Mathematics in June 1974.
[4] The Ramsey Group at the University of Chapel Hill is interested in utilizing micro- and nano fabrication strategies to create devices that facilitate people's ability to gather chemical and biochemical information.
Their motivations for fabricating devices include clinical diagnostics, high-throughput biochemical experimentation, understanding of transport mechanisms in nanoscale-confined spaces, and development of portable mass spectrometers operating at high-pressures (>1 Torr).
Applications for the devices that they develop include drug discovery, health care, environmental monitoring, chemical process control, and high-throughput laboratory analysis and basic research.
[6] Between 1979 and 2004, Ramsey worked as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow, research associate, and eventually a group leader for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.