- 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 appeared in Scientific American Mind from 2010-2017.
- 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. A sequel titled, " The PHD Movie 2: Still in Grad School " was produced in 2015 and also screened worldwide. Nature Journal called the movie " Astute, funny " while the New York Times wrote, " Well, Postdocs think it's funny. "
- To date, he has delivered over 400 invited lectures internationally on his experiences in academia and being an independent artist and science communicator.
- The PHD Comics website has been visited by over 60 million visitors in the last 10 years.
- Six book collections of his comics have been published (available in stores and online ).
- " We Have No Idea ," his book co-written with physicist Daniel Whiteson was published May 2017 by Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House and was a Der Spiegel Best-Seller. The book won the Wenjin National Book Award in China.
- His animated explanations of the Higgs Boson and Gravitational Waves went viral and have been viewed millions times.
- He was the subject of a question in a British Quiz Show .
- He lives near Los Angeles, CA with his family.
- He was named one of Los Angeles' most interesting people of 2013.
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