Jorge Mendoza is a CNRS Research Director. He finished his undergraduate studies at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), México. He got his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine at the UNAM, where he studied the neuroanatomical and functional interactions between the circadian system and the brain centers that control motivation and reward. He continued his research as a Post-doctoral Fellow and then as a Researcher at the CNRS in Strasbourg France. Jorge Mendoza's research group is expert, from behavioral to molecular approaches, in the neurobiology of the circadian system, hedonic feeding behavior, and addiction.