Jorge Pullin got his Ph.D. at the Balseiro Institute in Argentina. He occupied postdoctoral positions at Syracuse University and the University of Utah and was a faculty member at PennState. Since 2001 he is the Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University. He was the founding editor of Physical Review X of the American Physical Society and has served and serves on several editorial boards. He received the Edward Bouchet prize of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina and Mexico and a member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences.