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This is the home page of Jorge Cham. Jorge is the creator of "PHD Comics", the popular comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in Academia. He is also the co-founder of PHDtv, a video science and discovery outreach collaborative, and a founding board member of Endeavor College Prep, a non-profit school for kids in East L.A. He earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from Stanford University and was an Instructor and Research Associate at Caltech from 2003-2005. He is originally from Panama. To read his comic strip, click here To learn about the research he used to do, click here Read his profile in Science Magazine. To book Jorge for a lecture, click here. Watch Jorge's TEDx Talk about The Science Gap: More information about Jorge: Jorge earned his Bachelor's of Science from Georgia Tech. In 2009, he was awarded the 2009 NSF/AAAS International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge First Place in Informational Graphics with his collaborator Dwayne Godwin, a professor of Neuroscience at Wake Forest University. Their comics about the brain have appeared in Scientific American Mind since 2010. In 2011, PHD Comics was adapted into a feature-length film called "The PHD Movie", which screened at over 500 locations worldwide, including all 7 continents. To date, he has delivered nearly 300 invited lectures internationally on his experiences in academia and being an independent artist. The PHD Comics website receives over 8 million visitors a year. His animated explanation of the Higgs Boson went viral, and has been viewed over 2 million times. He was the subject of a question in a British Quiz Show. He lives near Los Angeles, CA with his family. Contact information: jorgephdcomics.com