skip to content

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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:

  • William Boyce (2024-)
  • John Crump (2021-)
  • William Biggs (2020-2024)
  • João Melo (2017-2023)
  • Bogdan Ganchev (2016 - 2020)
  • Toby Crisford (2015 - 2019)
  • Julija Markevičiūtė (2014 - 2018)

 

Selected Publications

  • Spinning Black Binaries in de Sitter Space, Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, 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, 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.

 

Publications

Smooth extremal horizons are the exception, not the rule
GT Horowitz, JE Santos
(2024)
Mixmaster chaos in an AdS black hole interior
M De Clerck, SA Hartnoll, JE Santos
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
202
Imaging nanomagnetism and magnetic phase transitions in atomically thin CrSBr
MA Tschudin, DA Broadway, P Siegwolf, C Schrader, EJ Telford, B Gross, J Cox, AEE Dubois, DG Chica, R Rama-Eiroa, E J G Santos, M Poggio, ME Ziebel, CR Dean, X Roy, P Maletinsky
– Nature communications
(2024)
15,
6005
Holographic batteries
WD Biggs, JE Santos
– Physical Review D
(2024)
109,
l101904
Sudden breakdown of effective field theory near cool Kerr-Newman black holes
GT Horowitz, M Kolanowski, GN Remmen, JE Santos
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
122
Stability of saddles and choices of contour in the Euclidean path integral for linearized gravity: dependence on the DeWitt parameter
X Liu, D Marolf, JE Santos
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
87
Self Gravitating Spinning String Condensates
JE Santos, Y Zigdon
(2024)
Sudden breakdown of effective field theory near cool Kerr-Newman black holes
GT Horowitz, M Kolanowski, GN Remmen, JE Santos
(2024)
New Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity
X Liu, JE Santos, T Wiseman
(2024)
Mixmaster chaos in an AdS black hole interior
MD Clerck, SA Hartnoll, JE Santos
(2023)
  • 1 of 14
  • >

Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.02

Telephone

01223 337872