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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

Geometrical interpretation of fluctuating hydrodynamics in diffusive systems
RL Jack, J Zimmer
– Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
(2014)
47,
485001
Information-theoretic measurements of coupling between structure and dynamics in glass formers.
RL Jack, AJ Dunleavy, CP Royall
– Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
113,
095703
Dynamical phase transitions reveal amyloid-like states on protein folding landscapes.
JK Weber, RL Jack, CR Schwantes, VS Pande
– Biophys J
(2014)
107,
974
Investigating Amorphous Order in Stable Glasses by Random Pinning
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
– Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
112,
255701
The effect of boundary adaptivity on hexagonal ordering and bistability in circularly confined quasi hard discs
I Williams, EC Oğuz, RL Jack, P Bartlett, H Löwen, CP Royall
– The Journal of chemical physics
(2014)
140,
104907
Counting metastable states in a kinetically constrained model using a patch repetition analysis
RL Jack
– Physical Review E
(2013)
88,
062113
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
(2013)
88,
042304
Dynamical phase transitions in supercooled liquids: interpreting measurements of dynamical activity.
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
224506
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431