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Current:
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University
Formerly:
Department of Physics, Scientific Computing, Materials Science and Eng., Florida State University
Condensed Matter Theory, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Education:
PDF, University of California, Berkeley & Berkeley National Lab, 2014
Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology & Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, 2013
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2012
M.Sc., California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2010
B.Sc., Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), 2008. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2008
Short Bio:
I am a theoretical condensed matter physicist and material scientist, that specializes in computational - physics/materials science/chemistry/engineering, and many-body theory. In other words, I study methods for solving the Schrödinger's or Dirac's equation, machine learning equations, among others. These methods include development of computational algorithms and their mathematical properties.
Dr. Mendoza's research has been featured in Forbes magazine, CNBC, Public Radio, MRS Bulletin, C&EN News, Laser Focus World magazine, and the DOE Highlights. His research has been disseminated through 53 invited talks both nationally and internationally. Dr. Mendoza's research has received funding from NSF, DOE, DOD, APS, Sloan Foundation, to name a few.
Dr. Mendoza was awarded the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Newcomb Cleveland Award, this Society's oldest and most prestigious award; the International Center for Material Research (ICMR) fellowship; and the Roberto Rocca Fellowship. More recently, he has been awarded the ONR Faculty Fellowship (2017), and the Carl Storm Fellowship (2018). In 2018, he was named an Emerging Investigator by the Royal Society of Chemistry and was named a 2020, 2021 and 2022 Scialog Fellow.
Dr. Mendoza has made significant contributions to the understanding of structure in 2D-materials, energy storage, catalysis, and how to use data-mining and machine learning on the physical sciences. More specifically, he has provided significant advances on understanding defects in 2D-materials, future 2D-materials, next-generation Li-batteries, hydrogen storage, and catalysis for clean energy (CO2 reduction, water splitting, and hydrogen evolution), materials design principles, machine learning force fields, and material databases for data mining.
Because of graduate and post-graduate studies advisors, Dr. Mendoza-Cortes' academic great grand parents are Marie Curie and Paul Dirac.
Honors and Awards:
Scialog fellow, 50 faculty/year including both USA and Canada, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Emerging Investigator by the Royal Society (RSC), 2018.
Carl Storm Fellowship, Gordon Research Conference, 2018.
ONR Summer Faculty Research Fellow, 2017.
CRC assistant professor award, 2016.
Caltech Graduate Student Travel Award, 2010.
Roberto Rocca Graduate Fellowship, 2009.
International Center for Materials Research fellowship, 2009.
AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, 2007; AAAS's oldest award (AAAS = American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS is the 'The World's Largest General Scientific Society')
Snyder Research Fellowship (UIUC), 2005.
Scientific pedigree:
* J.L. Mendoza-Cortes obtained his Ph.D. in 2012 from William A. Godddard at Caltech in USA.
* William A. Goddard III obtained his Ph.D. in 1964 from Pol Duwez at Caltech in USA.
* Pol Duwez received his D.Sc. in 1933 from Emile Henriot at U. Brussels in Belgium.
* Emile Henriot received his D.Sc. in 1912 from Marie Curie at the Sorbonne in France.
* J.L. Mendoza-Cortes did his PDF in 2014 with Martin Head-Gordon at Berkeley in USA.
* Martin Head-Gordon obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 from John Pople at Carnegie Mellon in USA.
* John Pople received his D.Sc. in 1951 from John Lennard-Jones at Cambridge in England.
* John Lennard-Jones received his D.Sc. in 1924 from Ralph H. Fowler at Cambridge in England.
* Ralph H. Fowler gave his D.Sc. in 1926 to Paul Dirac at Cambridge in England.
Heroes: Marie Curie, Paul Dirac, Grigori Perelman.
Random facts:
I met the president of a country as one of the best students in the national academic Olympiad, which included all the 6th graders.
I appeared in the back cover of all the textbooks of a public high schools system. This was because I participated in all of the available Science Olympiads at the time (Chemistry, Physics, Informatics and Mathematics) and represented a country.
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