Jorge V. José

Jorge V. José
Born
Jorge José-Valenzuela

Alma materNational Autonomous University of Mexico (B.Sc 1971)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Doctor of Science 1976)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics, Computational neuroscience and Psychiatry
InstitutionsNational Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Brown University
University of Chicago
Rutgers University
Northeastern University
Institut Laue–Langevin
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Indiana University
Doctoral advisorLeo P. Kadanoff

Jorge V. José is a Mexican/American physicist born in Mexico City. Currently the James H. Rudy Distinguished Professor of Physics at Indiana University. He has made seminal contributions to research in a variety of disciplines, including condensed matter physics, nonlinear dynamics, quantum chaos, biological physics, computational neuroscience and lately precision psychiatry. His pioneering work on the two-dimensional x-y model has been exceedingly influential in many areas of physics and has garnered many citations. He edited the book on the “40 Years of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Theory”, on two-dimensional topological phase transitions in 2013. Three years later KT were awarded the 2016 Nobel Physics Prize.