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, gravitational aspects of string theory, numerical relativity, holography, and the theoretical foundations of quantum gravity.

Research Students:

• Floria Wang (2025-)

• William Boyce (2024-)

• John Crump (2021-2026)

• William Biggs (2020-2024)

• João Melo (2017-2023)

• Bogdan Ganchev (2016 - 2020)

• Toby Crisford (2015 - 2019)

• Julija Markevičiūtė (2014 - 2018)

Selected Publications

• Low Energy Limit of Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind Quantum Mechanics, Oscar J.C. Dias and Jorge E. Santos, Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 23, 231402.

• Spinning Black Binaries in de Sitter Space, Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way, Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 19, 191401.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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