Miriam Rafailovich (born October 29, 1953) is an American materials engineering researcher.
She is the director of the Garcia Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Stony Brook University[1] as well as former co-director of the Chemical and Molecular Engineering program at Stony Brook University.
Her publications focus mainly on nanoscale materials engineering, including nanofibers, supercritical carbon dioxide, and biodegradable polymers.
Miriam Rafailovich received a Bachelor of Science degree from Brooklyn College in 1974 and a Ph.D in nuclear physics from SUNY Stony Brook in 1980.
Rafailovich is married to Jonathan C. Sokolov,[1] who is also a polymer engineering researcher.