Martinez-Miranda is an APS Fellow and was the first female president of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists.
[2] Her doctoral advisor was Robert Birgeneau and her thesis was titled "Crossover Behavior and Fluctuations in the Vicinity of a Liquid Crystal Multicritical Point.
"[5] After receiving her PhD, Martinez-Miranda held positions at UC Berkeley and the Naval Research Laboratory.
[5] In 1995, she joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, and helped in the design of its junior materials laboratory.
[3] Martinez-Miranda was awarded the status of Fellow[7] in the American Physical Society,[8] after she was nominated by the Forum on Education in 2007,[9] for sustained achievements in recruiting, mentoring, and advancing women and minorities in physics; for engaging K-16 students in the excitement of research; and for being a superb role model through her elegant research to understand liquid crystal systems and further their application.