Camila Ruiz


team member

Camila Ruiz


Biology, Chemistry, Spanish & French Tutor
Camila Ruiz is a PhD student in Neuroscience at the City University of New York. She received two majors from the University of the Republic (Uruguay): Biochemistry and Biological Sciences in 2015 and 2016 respectively.  She went on to earn a masters degree in Biochemistry from the City University of New York in Biochemistry before going on to pursue her PhD.

Alongside her studies, Camila has taught several courses at the university as well tutored individual students. Among the course Camila has taught are Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Electrochemistry, Chemistry, Plant Biology, Animal Biology, Neuroscience, Biophysics, and Bioinformatics. She also taught Chemistry for the PreUniversitario High School in Uruguay. Camila’s scientific expertise and passion for her chosen subject matter allow her to distill otherwise complicated ideas that occur in Chemistry and Biology into a more easily digestible for her tutoring students at Cohen Math Prep.

In addition to tutoring science, Camila is a native Spanish speaker who tutors Spanish as well as French. She enjoys traveling and hiking and does yoga every morning.