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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

Large deviations of the dynamical activity in the East model: analysing structure in biased trajectories
RL Jack, P Sollich
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2013)
47,
015003
Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key binding
DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding
– Soft matter
(2013)
9,
9661
Dynamical correlations in a glass former with randomly pinned particles.
RL Jack, CJ Fullerton
– Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(2013)
88,
042304
Dynamical phase transitions in supercooled liquids: Interpreting measurements of dynamical activity
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
224506
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
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
12A531
Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions
RL Jack, L Berthier
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2012)
85,
021120
Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: An analogy with self-assembly
J Grant, RL Jack
– Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(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
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431