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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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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

Overlap and activity glass transitions in plaquette spin models with hierarchical dynamics.
RM Turner, RL Jack, JP Garrahan
– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
(2015)
92,
022115
Self-assembly and crystallisation of indented colloids at a planar wall.
DJ Ashton, SJ Ivell, RPA Dullens, RL Jack, NB Wilding, DGAL Aarts
– Soft Matter
(2015)
11,
6089
Effective interactions and large deviations in stochastic processes
RL Jack, P Sollich
– European Physical Journal Special Topics
(2015)
224,
2351
Porous Liquid Phases for Indented Colloids with Depletion Interactions
DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
237801
Evidence for a Disordered Critical Point in a Glass-Forming Liquid
L Berthier, RL Jack
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
205701
Hyperuniformity and phase separation in biased ensembles of trajectories for diffusive systems
RL Jack, IR Thompson, P Sollich
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
060601
The statistical mechanics of dynamic pathways to self-assembly.
S Whitelam, RL Jack
– Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
(2014)
66,
143
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
– Physical Review Letters
(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
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431