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, 2012 M.S., California Institute of Technology, 2010 B.S., Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), 2008. University of California, Los Angeles, 2006-2008

Our research philosophy focus on attacking problems in engineering and pure sciences and developing methods needed to solve them, not the other way around. These problems are studied by developing or using established methods related to: Multiscale – Multiparadigm simulations (from atoms to continuum), Quantum Mechanics (DFT, MP, CCSD), Atomistic Simulations (MD, Force Field development, ReaxFF, Coarse grained FF), Statistical Mechanics (Soft matter), Computational Engineering (Chemical and Mechanical Eng., and Materials) and Machine Learning (Big Data). Thus, we borrow many techniques and approaches from diverse areas including chemical and mechanical engineering, material sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics & computer science. Some of the applications our methodologies and research programs offers are: Renewable Energy (Solar, Chemical, Electrical) Energy Storage (Batteries, Fuel Cells, Artificial Photosynthesis) Materials Design (Polymers, Membranes, PV, devices) Biomaterials (biocompatible and Biomimetic) Catalysis (organometallics, homogeneous and heterogeneous) Electrochemistry (new materials and interfaces) Crystallization Mechanisms (pharmaceuticals, high energy molecules) Nanotechnology (Nanocrystals, Nanoparticles, Single Molecule Electronics) Processes (Separation, devices)

Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes Design Principles for High H2 Storage Using Chelation of Abundant Transition Metals in Covalent Organic Frameworks for 0-700 bar at 298 K Yohanes Pramudya, J. L. Mendoza-Cortes* Birnessite: A Layered Manganese Oxide To Capture Sunlight for Water-Splitting Catalysis Kevin P. Lucht, J. L. Mendoza-Cortes* Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes Visible Light Sensitized CO2 Activation by the Tetraaza [CoIIN4H(MeCN)]2+ Complex Investigated by FT-IR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations J. L. Mendoza-Cortes‡, M. Zhang‡, M. El-Roz‡, D. Lacy, J. C. Peters, H. Frei, Martin Head-Gordon JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes Prediction of the crystal packing of di-tetrazine-tetroxide (DTTO) energetic material Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes, Qi An, William A. Goddard III, Caichao Ye, Sergey Zybin