Laura Ramírez is Assistant Teaching Professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, where she coordinates and teaches in the certificate and MA of Translation and Interpreting. She also coordinates translation and interpreting initiatives within the Humanities as part of her assignment in the Language Center. She has over 15 years experience as a freelance translator and language processes professional. Laura holds a degree on Translation and Interpretation by the University Jaume I in Castellón and in Library Science by the Polytechnic University of Valencia; an MA in Computational Linguistics by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a MA in Medical Translation by the Universitat Jaume I. She holds a PhD on Controlled Languages and Machine Translation from the University of Valencia.