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Jose Luis Mendoza-Cortes is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and material scientist specializing in computational physics, materials science, chemistry, and engineering. His studies include methods for solving Schrödinger's or Dirac's equation, machine learning equations, among others. These methods include the development of computational algorithms and their mathematical properties.

Education
Throughout his childhood, he participated in various events such as the National Olympiad for Primary Schools, the Chemistry Olympiad, and the Informatics Olympiad. He participated in the 34th International Chemistry Olympiad at Groningen, Netherlands 2002.

Jose L. Mendoza completed his B.Sc. in Physics from Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico. Following this, he moved to Pasadena, California to complete his M.Sc. at California Institute of Technology (CalTech). After the completion of his M.Sc., he stayed in Caltech and completed his Ph.D. in Physics in 2012. His research advisor was William Goddard III and his dissertation title is “Design of Molecules and Materials for Applications in Clean Energy, Catalysis and Molecular Machines Through Quantum Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations.”

Career
Following his graduation, Mendoza joined the California Institute of Technology & Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis as a Staff Scientist until 2013 and then as a Postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, where he served until 2014. Mendoza is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Material Science at Michigan State University. Prior to this, he was affiliated as an Assistant Professor with Florida State University until 2020. During this time, he was also associated with the National High Magnetic Laboratory.

He has been nominated as a Scialog fellow for the last 4 years (2021-2023) for his contributions to the development of negative emissions technologies. His works on the amphidynamic behavior in oligo-functionalized covalent-organic frameworks was selected as one of the 72 articles in the 2018 Emerging Investigators collection from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also the recipient of the GAP awards in 2018 from Florida State University for his work on creating the database to reliably predict which compounds will produce materials with the most desirable properties for a given purpose.

He was part of the American Physical Society (APS) national committee on diversity and inclusion (9 persons), which developed the Bridge program; which has now expanded into the Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) which is made of 30 societies (including ACS, MRS, APS), corporations, and national laboratories.