| J. M. R. Parrondo | |
| Birth Date: | 9 January 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Fields: | Physicist |
| Workplaces: | UCM |
| Alma Mater: | UCM |
| Doctoral Advisor: | [1] |
| Academic Advisors: | Thomas M. Cover Katja Lindenberg |
| Known For: | Parrondo's paradox Brownian ratchets Physics of information Statistical mechanics |
Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo[2] [3] (born 9 January 1964) is a Spanish physicist. He is mostly popular for the invention of the Parrondo's paradox and his contributions in the thermodynamical study of information.[4]
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.
"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)
"Game theory: Losing strategies can win by Parrondo's paradox" G. P. Harmer and D. Abbott, Nature vol. 402, p. 864 (1999)