Career
- 2018-date: Royal Society E.P. Abraham Professor, DAMPT, Cambridge
- 2011-date: Herchel Smith Chair in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory,
- Cambridge
- 2002-2010: Personal Chair in the Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory,
- Cambridge
- 2000-2002: University Readership in the Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1995-1999: Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1995-date: Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge
- 1994-1995: Royal Society Research Fellow and Lecturer, Imperial College, London
- 1990-1991: Junior Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Research
Ben is a member the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. He also holds affiliated positions in the Wellcome Trust/CRUK Gurdon Institute and the Wellcome Trust/MRC Stem Cell Institute. His research interests have spanned a wide range of topics within the area of theoretical quantum condensed matter physics. However, his current interests are focussed on the application of modelling approaches to study the dynamics of biological systems, from subcellular processes, to cell fate decision-making and morphogenic processes. His research is supported by grants from EPSRC, the Wellcome Trust, CRUK and the Royal Society.
Selected Publications
- S. Rulands, et al., Universality of clone dynamics during tissue development, Nature Physics 14, 469-474 (2018)
- E. Hannezo, et al., A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis, Cell 171, 242-255 (2017)
- X. Lan, et al., Cell fate mapping of human glioblastoma reveals an invariant stem cell hierarchy pre- and post-treatment, Nature 549, 227-232 (2017)
- A. Sanchez-Danes, et al., Defining the clonal dynamics leading to tumor initiation, Nature 536, 298-303 (2016)
- B. D. Simons and H. Clevers, Strategies of stem cell self-renewal in adult tissues, Cell 145, 851-862 (2011)
- C. Lopez-Garcia, et al., Intestinal stem cell replacement follows a pattern of neutral drift, Science 330, 822-825 (2010)
Publications
Quantum phase transitions in bosonic heteronuclear pairing Hamiltonians
– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
(2010)
82,
013639
(doi: 10.1103/physreva.82.013639)
Collective dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical cavities
– Physical Review Letters
(2010)
105,
043001
Exciton front propagation in photoexcited GaAs quantum wells
– Physical Review B
(2010)
81,
115320
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.115320)
Magnetic analog of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phase in Sr3Ru2O7
– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(2010)
81,
054429
(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.81.054429)
Bose-Hubbard models coupled to cavity light fields
– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
(2010)
81,
023617
(doi: 10.1103/physreva.81.023617)
The ordered architecture of murine ear epidermis is maintained by progenitor cells with random fate
– Developmental Cell
(2010)
18,
317
(doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2009.12.016)
Theory of quantum paraelectrics and the metaelectric transition
– Physical Review B
(2010)
81,
024102
(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.81.024102)
Feshbach resonance in optical lattices and the quantum Ising model.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2009)
103,
265302
Stochastic fate of p53-mutant epidermal progenitor cells is tilted toward proliferation by UV B during preneoplasia.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2009)
107,
270
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.0909738107)
Repulsive atomic gas in a harmonic trap on the border of itinerant ferromagnetism
– Physical review letters
(2009)
103,
200403
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