J. M. R. Parrondo

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo^[2][3] (born 9 January 1964) is a Spanish physicist.^{[not verified in body]} He is mostly popular for the invention of the Parrondo's paradox and his contributions in the thermodynamical study of information.^[4]

J. M. R. Parrondo
Born	(1964-01-09) 9 January 1964 (age 61) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	UCM
Known for	Parrondo's paradox Brownian ratchets Physics of information Statistical mechanics
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	UCM[citation needed]
Doctoral advisor	Francisco Javier de la Rubia[1]
Other academic advisors	Thomas M. Cover Katja Lindenberg[citation needed]

Biography

Juan Parrondo received his bachelors degree in 1987 and defended his Ph.D at Complutense University of Madrid in 1992. He started a permanent position at UCM at 1996. In the same year he invented the well-known Parrondo's paradox, according to which 2 losing strategies may win while working together. Since then, the paradox has been widely used in biology and finances. He has also completed a lot of research in the field of information theory, mostly looking at information as a thermodynamic concept, which as a result of ergodicity breaking changed the entropy of the system.

Works by Juan M.R. Parrondo

"Noise-Induced Non-equilibrium Phase Transition" C. Van den Broeck, J. M. R. Parrondo and R. Toral, Physical Review Letters, vol. 73 p. 3395 (1994)