Josue Ortega (academic)

Josue Ortega is a British academic and lecturer in economics at Queen's University Belfast.^[1] He is the author of a controversial article that suggests that the emergence of online dating has caused an increase in the number of interracial marriages in the US.^[2] Ortega's findings have been covered by international media, including Forbes,^[3] the Times,^[4] New Scientist,^[5] Business Insider^[6] and the MIT Technology Review.^[7] Ortega has been interviewed by Thinking Allowed at BBC Radio 4.^[8]

Ortega obtained his PhD at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School under the supervision of Professor Hervé Moulin.^[9] He received the Catherine Richards prize by the UK Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in 2016.^[10][11] He sits in the editorial board of Palgrave Communications^[12] and has published his research in the Journal of Mathematical Economics, the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Economics Letters and Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}