Jorge José Named AAAS Fellow

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Jorge V. José, Ph.D., vice president for research at the University at Buffalo, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

José was selected as a fellow by the AAAS Section on Physics "for distinguished contributions in theoretical physics, especially in seminal studies of long-range phase coherence in two dimensions, and in education and senior administration."

Before joining UB in August 2005, José was Matthews University Distinguished Professor and chair in the Department of Physics at Northeastern University and founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems at Northeastern.

José, an internationally known researcher in the fields of theoretical physics, condensed matter physics and biological physics, has conducted research in areas including the physics of molecular motors in cells; the problem of mitosis without chromosomes; the modeling of neural processes of visual attention; the neurokinematic modeling of swimming by larval Zebra Fish during capture and escape; the connection between chaos in the Newtonian limit of quantum mechanics; the multiple transformations of order in condensed matter physics; superconductivity at high temperatures, and superfluidity at low temperature.

Before joining Northeastern in 1980, he was a consultant with Exxon Corp. and Schlumberger Corp., professor and research associate at the National University of Mexico, assistant research professor at Rutgers University and assistant research professor and research associate at Brown University. From 1977-79, he was the first James Franck Fellow with the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago.

José has been a visiting faculty member at several leading institutions, including most recently the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

The author or co-author of 130 scientific publications, he has been a referee for 10 professional journals and is co-author with E. Saletan of "Classical Mechanics: A Contemporary Approach" (Cambridge University Press, 2002) that has been adopted as a graduate textbook in leading research universities in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has given more than 200 invited talks in 20 countries.

A fellow of the American Physical Society, he is a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His awards have included the Manuel Sandoval-Vallarta 2004 Award from the Universidad Metropolitana de Mexico and in 2002 France's Chercheur Etranger D'Haut Niveau et de Renommee Internationale.

José earned his doctorate, as well as master's and bachelor's degrees, in physics from the National University of Mexico.

He is a resident of Amherst.

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