Jose Mendoza Cortes
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3517
Biography
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 p
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Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley National Lab, 2014
Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology & Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, 2013
Ph.D., Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, 2012
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2026 Keynote speaker, ACS Spring 2026
2025 Nominated for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
2025 Advanced Materials ‘Rising Stars’
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Dr. Mendoza's publications have over 9,700 times with an average of over 159 citations/paper, as well as Erdős number = 5, H-index = 33, and i10-index = 45
V. Jelic, S. Adams, D. Maldonado-Lopez, I. A. Buliyaminu, M. Hassan, J.L. Mendoza-Cortes*, T. L. Cocker*, “Terahertz field control of surface topology probed with subatomic resolution” Nature Photonics, 2025, 19, 1048-1055 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-025-01751-9
A. Rodriguez, J. S. Smith, J.L. Mendoza-Cortes*, “Does Hessian Data Improve the Performance of Machine Learning Potentials?” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2025, 21, 14, 6698 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jctc.5c00402
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