José Onuchic

José Nelson Onuchic
José Nelson Onuchic
Born	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Education	B.S. Electrical Engineering (1980) ; B.S. Physics (1981) ; M.S. Applied Physics (1982) ; Ph.D. Chemistry (1987)
Alma mater	Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil; California Institute of Technology
Awards	International Centre for Theoretical Physics Prize (1989) Beckman Young Investigator Award (1992) ; Member National Academy of Sciences (2006); Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) ; Fellow Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2009) ; Fellow of the Biophysical Society (2013) ; Biophysical Society Founders Award (2023)
	Scientific career
Fields	Biological Physics, Biophysics
Institutions	Rice University
Thesis	New aspects of the theory of electron transfer reaction dynamics (March 1987)
Doctoral advisor	John J. Hopfield

José Nelson Onuchic (born Sao Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian and American physicist, the Harry C & Olga K Wiess Professor of Physics at Rice University. He does research in molecular biophysics, condensed matter chemistry, and genetic networks, and is known for the folding funnel hypothesis stating that the native state of a protein is a deep minimum of free energy for the protein's natural conditions among its possible configurations. He was the college master for Lovett College at Rice University from 2014 to 2019.

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