Is Jorge Cham married? Yes, he is. His wife’s name is Suelika Chial who is a project manager by profession. However, the authentic information regarding Cham’s family life is not available. It is known that his place of residence is in Los Angeles, California, as mentioned on his website. Further, no past relationship records of Cham are available which has made him one of the secretive celebrities. Scroll down to explore more interesting personal facts and biography of Jorge:
Who is Jorge Cham?
Cham was born in 1976 which makes his age be 44 years old as of 2020. By profession, Cham is a cartoonist who has also experienced a successful professional journey as a writer, producer and engineer in the past. He is mostly credited for being the writer of PhD Comics. In addition to that, he was featured on NPR and has also gained wide public attention for co-authoring a book with physicist Daniel Whiteson titled We Have No Idea. In 2013, he was also named as one of Los Angeles’ most interesting people.
Early Life and Education
Jorge Gabriel Cham landed the planet in 1976 and his place of birth is in Panama. Regarding his family background, he was born to educated parents both belonging to the engineering profession. His parents were employed by the government of the United States who worked at the Panama Canal Zone.
Belonging to engineering family background, he developed an interest in engineering although he was also interested in artistic works since his early childhood days. Regarding his education and academic achievements, he went to Georgia Institute of Technology from where he received his graduation with a B.S. degree in 1997. For his higher education, he attended Stanford University from where he earned his PhD in mechanical engineering.
Career and Professional Life
Moving towards his professional life, Jorge worked at Caltech as an instructor in his early working days. Further, he was a researcher at neural prosthetics. Although he has excellent certificates and academic achievements in the field of engineering, he has switched his career in the field of cartoons and writings. There are chances that he studied engineering only due to his parents’ advice.
Since 2005, Jorge has been working as a cartoonist and has been fully dedicated to cartoon-related works. Jorge is being frequently invited by various universities where he mostly discusses “The Power of Procrastination”. He has made his travel across the country and people are found excited to get his lecture classes.
Jorge is also known for being the writer for the comic-based independent feature-length film named The PhD Movie for which he is also the producer. The movie got released in 2012 through which Jorge gained wide public attention. This film was released in over 500 universities and was able to earn a wide positive response from the audiences. In 2015, the movies’ sequel was released which also made a good business worldwide.
Moving to his authorship, Jorge co-authored a book named “We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe” with Daniel Whiteson. Being commercially successful, the book has already been translated into 23 languages making it one of the bestselling books. Further, the book was able to garner the Wen Jin National Book Award in its name in China.
Many of the people recognize Jorge for his Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD) Comics which follows the lives of various grad students. This newspaper is making a good commercial business which he started from his university days.
Personal Life
Jorge Cham is a married man who has been enjoying his conjugal life with project manager Suelika Chial. There is no adequate information regarding his children, past relationship and much more.
Body Measurements
American cartoonist Jorge Gabriel Cham stands at a perfect height carrying an attractive personality. The man with motivational appearance prefers to follow a healthy lifestyle by remaining under a strict diet and nutritional charts. However, the verified body statistics of Jorge like his weight, height, feet size, etc. are not provided.
Salary and Net worth
Popular American comics writer Jorge Cham has an estimated net worth of 6 million USD. He has made a good fortune from being the writer of webcomic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He has been in the artistic works since his college days. Although he has good engineering certificates, Jorge has been popular as a writer, cartoonist and producer. He is also the receiver of the 2009 NSF/AAAS International Science as well as the Engineering Visualization Challenge First Place.
Wiki and Facts
The biography of cartoonist Jorge Cham is provided by most of the popular wiki sites like IMDb and Wikipedia. He is active on social networking sites through his PhD. Comics’s Instagram account which can be reached @phd_comics. The personal verified social profile of Cham like Twitter and Instagram aren’t available.