Josue Ortega is a British academic and lecturer in economics at

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. 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. Ortega's findings have been covered by international media, including ''

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'' and the ''

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''. Ortega has been interviewed by ''

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'' at

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. Ortega obtained his PhD at the

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under the supervision of Professor

Hervé Moulin Hervé Moulin (born 1950 in Paris) is a French mathematician who is the Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. He is known for his research contributions in mathematical economics ...

. He received the Catherine Richards prize by the UK Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in 2016. He sits in the editorial board of

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and has published his research in the

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, the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation,

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and Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.

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