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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
Nonreciprocal dynamics with weak noise: Aperiodic "Escher cycles" and their quasipotential landscape
– Physical Review E
(2026)
114,
024104
(doi: 10.1103/slp9-rd27)
Avalanche-like intercalation and intraparticle correlations in graphite.
– Nature
(2026)
656,
364
(doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10862-4)
Nonequilibrium pathways between cluster morphologies in active phase separation: Necking, rupture, and cavitation
– Physical Review E
(2026)
114,
014148
(doi: 10.1103/vdps-lhr9)
Self-assembly: From blueprints to breakthroughs
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2026)
165,
030401
(doi: 10.1063/5.0348961)
Hydrodynamic theory of wetting by active particles
– Phys Rev E
(2026)
113,
065423
(doi: 10.1103/rdc2-gsqc)
Spontaneous Ratchet Currents and Transition Dynamics in Active Wetting
– Physical Review Letters
(2026)
136,
257101
(doi: 10.1103/sq25-hfsb)
Observing the mechanism of delayed collapse in colloidal gels: Yielding while becoming stronger.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2026)
123,
e2528499123
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2528499123)
Exact large deviations and emergent long-range correlations in sequential quantum East circuits
– Physical Review B
(2026)
113,
l100305
(doi: 10.1103/72KX-56LT)
Weak unitary symmetries of open quantum dynamics: beyond quantum master equations
– New Journal of Physics
(2026)
28,
024505
(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ae34da)
Cyclically sheared colloidal gels: structural change and delayed failure time.
– Soft matter
(2025)
21,
8555
(doi: 10.1039/d5sm00647c)
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