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Cover letter draft — Ramírez, EB-2 NIW
Westbrook & Mireles house template · 12 citations · attorney review pending
III. Prong Two — The Beneficiary Is Well Positioned
17. Dr. Ramírez is well positioned to advance the proposed endeavour. Her work on solid-state electrolyte interfaces has been cited 1,284 times across independent research groups, with self-citations excluded, as set out at. That record reflects adoption rather than visibility alone.
18. Dr. Elena Moreau of ETH Zürich, who has no co-authorship, institutional or funding relationship with the beneficiary, describes the interface stabilisation method as having “changed how the field approaches cycle-life degradation,” at .
19. Three United States national laboratories have incorporated the method into their published test protocols, evidenced at. Federal funding directed to the same line of work appears at .
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