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Faculty of Mathematics

 

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Career

  • 2022-: Professor of Statistical Mechanics (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2018-: Fellow, Emmanuel College
  • 2017-2022: Interdisciplinary Lecturer (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2008-2017: Lecturer / Reader, University of Bath
  • 2006-2008: Postdoc, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
  • 2004-2006: Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
  • 2000-2004: PhD, Physics, Imperial College London

Research

Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter, combining ideas and methods from mathematics, physics and chemistry.

 

 

Publications

Emergence of Glass-like Behavior in Markov State Models of Protein Folding Dynamics
JK Weber, RL Jack, VS Pande
– J Am Chem Soc
(2013)
135,
5501
Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme
D Klotsa, RL Jack
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
094502
Space-time phase transitions in the East model with a softened kinetic constraint
YS Elmatad, RL Jack
– J Chem Phys
(2013)
138,
12a531
Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions
RL Jack, L Berthier
– Physical Review E
(2012)
85,
021120
Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: An analogy with self-assembly
J Grant, RL Jack
– Physical Review E
(2012)
85,
021112
Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid
RL Jack, LO Hedges, JP Garrahan, D Chandler
– Physical Review Letters
(2011)
107,
275702
Analyzing mechanisms and microscopic reversibility of self-assembly.
J Grant, RL Jack, S Whitelam
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2011)
135,
214505
Mechanisms of kinetic trapping in self-assembly and phase transformation.
MF Hagan, OM Elrad, RL Jack
– J Chem Phys
(2011)
135,
104115
Overview of different characterizations of dynamic heterogeneity
L Berthier, G Biroli, J Bouchaud, RL Jack
(2011)
9780199691470,
68
Predicting the self-assembly of a model colloidal crystal
D Klotsa, RL Jack
– Soft Matter
(2011)
7,
6294
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431