Jorge Munoz (jamunoz@utep.edu)

Work experience

August 2018 - Present: Assistant Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
August 2014 - August 2018: Data scientist in Algorithms Pathfinding at Intel Corporation
July 2013 - August 2014: Engineer in Computer Aided Design at Intel Corporation

Education

Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), June 2013
M.S. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), June 2009
B.S. in Physics, Applied Mathematics (double major), The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), May 2007

2022 Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, July 2022
2022 Miguel Izquierdo Teaching Excellence Award, College of Science, The University of Texas at El Paso, May 2022
2009 Robert S. Hyer Undergraduate Research Award, Texas Section of the American Physical Society (TX-APS), October 2009
2007 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation (NSF), May 2007
2002 Gates Millennium Scholarship, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, August 2002

Summer 2020, Summer 2021: Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Summer 2019: Maui Space Surveillance Branch, Air Force Research Lab.

March 2021 - Feb 2024: Member-at-large of the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Materials Physics (DMP)
April 2018 - Dec 2020: Member-at-large of the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on Physics and Society (FPS)

Author or co-author of 35 peer-reviewed publications and inventor or co-inventor of 3 US patents. Please see my GoogleScholar Profile for a list.

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