Career

• 2022-: Professor of Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University

• 2018-2022: Reader in Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University

• 2019-2020: Junior Visiting Professor, J. Robert Oppenheimer Visiting Professorship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

• 2013-2018: Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University

• 2013-2014: Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University

• 2010-2013: Postdoctoral fellow, University of California at Santa Barbara

• 2006-2010: Ph.D at DAMTP

Research

General relativity, quantum gravity, gravitational aspects of string theory, numerical relativity and applications of general relativity to condensed matter physics via holography.

Research Students:

• John Crump (2021-)

• William Biggs (2020-)

• João Melo (2017-2023)

• Bogdan Ganchev (2016 - 2020)

• Toby Crisford (2015 - 2019)

• Julija Markevičiūtė (2014 - 2018)

Selected Publications

• Static Black Binaries in de Sitter, Oscar J.C. Dias, Gary W. Gibbons, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 131401.

• Extremal Kerr Black Holes as Amplifiers of New Physics, Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Grant N. Remmen, Jorge E. Santos, Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 9, 091402.

• Oscar J. C. Dias, Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, Extremal black holes that are not extremal: maximal warm holes, JHEP 01 (2022) 064.

• Donald Marolf, J. E. Santos, AdS Euclidean Wormholes, Class. Quant. Grav. 38 (2021) 22, 224002.

• J. E. Santos, To go or not to go with the flow: Hawking radiation at strong coupling, JHEP 06 (2020) 104.

• Ahmed Almheiri, Raghu Mahajan and Jorge E. Santos, Entanglement islands in higher dimensions, SciPost Phys. 9 (2020) 1, 001.

• Matthew W. Choptuik, Oscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way, Collapse and Nonlinear Instability of AdS with Angular Momenta, Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) 2, 021103.

• Toby Crisford and Jorge E. Santos, Violating the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in Four-Dimensional Anti–de Sitter Space, Phys.Rev.Lett. 118 (2017) no.18, 181101.

• Oscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way, Localised AdS5 x S5 Black Holes, Phys.Rev.Lett. 117 (2016) no. 15, 151101 

• Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, Black holes with a single Killing vector field: black resonators, JHEP 1512 (2015) 171.

• Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, Neutral Black Rings in Five Dimensions are Unstable, Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) 221101.

• Oscar J. C. Dias, Mahdi Godazgar, Jorge E. Santos, Linear Mode Stability of the Kerr-Newman Black Hole and Its Quasinormal Modes, Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) no.15, 151101.

• Sean A. Hartnoll, Jorge E. Santos, Disordered horizons: Holography of randomly disordered fixed points, Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 231601.

• Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, General Relativity and the Cuprates, JHEP, 2013.

• Sebastian Fischetti, Donald Marolf, Jorge E. Santos, AdS flowing black funnels: Stationary AdS black holes with non-Killing horizons and heat transport in the dual CFT, Class. Quant. Grav., 2013.

• Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, David Tong, Optical Conductivity with Holographic Lattices, JHEP, 2012.

• Oscar J.C. Dias, Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, Gravitational Turbulent Instability of Anti-de Sitter Space, Class. Quant. Grav., 2012.

• Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, A Holographic Josephson Junction, Phys. Rev. Lett, 2011.

• Miguel S. Costa, Ricardo Monteiro, Jorge E. Santos, Dimitrios Zoakos, On three-point correlation functions in the gauge/gravity duality, JHEP, 2010.

• Oscar J.C. Dias, Pau Figueras, Ricardo Monteiro, Harvey S. Reall, Jorge E. Santos, An instability of higher-dimensional rotating black holes, JHEP, 2010.

• Oscar J.C. Dias, Pau Figueras, Ricardo Monteiro, Jorge E. Santos, Roberto Emparan, Instability and new phases of higher-dimensional rotating black holes, Phys. Rev. D., 2009.

• Oscar J.C. Dias, Harvey S. Reall, Jorge E. Santos, Kerr-CFT and gravitational perturbations , JHEP, 2009.