Jose Mendoza Cortes

About

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 Che

Education

• 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
• M.Sc., Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 2010
• B.Sc., Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), 2008. University of California, Los Angeles, 2008

Selected publications

• Dr. Mendoza's publications have over 10,000 times with an average of over 161 citations/paper, as well as Erdős number = 5, H-index = 34, and i10-index = 52
• “Terahertz field control of surface topology probed with subatomic resolution” Nature Photonics, 2025, 19, 1048-1055. V. Jelic, S. Adams, D. Maldonado-Lopez, I. A. Buliyaminu, M. Hassan, J.L. Mendoza-Cortes*, T. L. Cocker*, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-025-01751-9
• “Does Hessian Data Improve the Performance of Machine Learning Potentials?” A. Rodriguez, J. S. Smith, J.L. Mendoza-Cortes*, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2025, 21, 14, 6698. , https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jctc.5c00402
• "Reaction-driven restructuring of defective PtSe2 into ultrastable catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction" W Niu, S Pakhira, G Cheng, F Zhao, N Yao, JL Mendoza-Cortes, BE Koel Nature Materials 23, 1704–1711 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-02020-w
• “Impact of Grain Size on Low-Temperature Carrier Phase Coherence Length in Polycrystalline Halide Perovskite Films” , A. Sen, L. J. Scanlon, A. M. Gaona-Carranza, J.L. Mendoza-Cortes*, J. Pollanen*, R. R. Lunt*, W. J. Gannon*, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2025, 12 https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/admi.20250056
• A first-principles theoretical study on two-dimensional MX and MX2 metal halides: bandgap engineering, magnetism, and catalytic descriptors YH Lin, D Maldonado-Lopez, JL Mendoza-Cortes Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2026, 28, 3832-3840. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/cp/d5cp03188e