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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

Large deviations and optimal control forces for hard particles in one dimension
J Dolezal, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2019)
2019,
123208
Correction of coarse-graining errors by a two-level method: Application to the Asakura-Oosawa model.
H Kobayashi, PB Rohrbach, R Scheichl, NB Wilding, RL Jack
– J Chem Phys
(2019)
151,
144108
Accelerated relaxation and suppressed dynamic heterogeneity in a kinetically constrained (East) model with swaps
R Gutiérrez, JP Garrahan, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2019)
2019,
094006
A variational structure for interacting particle systems and their hydrodynamic scaling limits
M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer
– Communications in Mathematical Sciences
(2019)
17,
739
Large deviations in models of growing clusters with symmetry-breaking transitions
RL Jack
– Phys Rev E
(2019)
100,
012140
Unraveling the Large Deviation Statistics of Markovian Open Quantum Systems
F Carollo, RL Jack, JP Garrahan
– Physical Review Letters
(2019)
122,
130605
Microscopic analysis of thermo-orientation in systems of off-centre Lennard-Jones particles.
RL Jack, P Wirnsberger, A Reinhardt
– J Chem Phys
(2019)
150,
134501
Optimizing active work: Dynamical phase transitions, collective motion, and jamming
T Nemoto, É Fodor, ME Cates, RL Jack, J Tailleur
– Physical Review E
(2019)
99,
022605
Effects of random pinning on the potential energy landscape of a supercooled liquid
SP Niblett, VK de Souza, RL Jack, DJ Wales
– J Chem Phys
(2018)
149,
114503
Efficient characterisation of large deviations using population dynamics
T Brewer, SR Clark, R Bradford, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2018)
2018,
053204
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431