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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

Structure of inactive states of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture
D Coslovich, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2016)
2016,
074012
The melting of stable glasses is governed by nucleation-and-growth dynamics.
RL Jack, L Berthier
– J Chem Phys
(2016)
144,
244506
Population-dynamics method with a multicanonical feedback control.
T Nemoto, F Bouchet, RL Jack, V Lecomte
– Phys Rev E
(2016)
93,
062123
Ideal bulk pressure of active Brownian particles
T Speck, RL Jack
– Phys Rev E
(2016)
93,
062605
Phase Transition for Quenched Coupled Replicas in a Plaquette Spin Model of Glasses
RL Jack, JP Garrahan
– Physical Review Letters
(2016)
116,
055702
Anomalous approach to thermodynamic equilibrium: Structure formation of molecules after vapor deposition
PK Jana, C Wang, RL Jack, L Chi, A Heuer
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2015)
92,
052402
Dynamical phase transitions in one-dimensional hard-particle systems
IR Thompson, RL Jack
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2015)
92,
052115
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
– The European Physical Journal Special Topics
(2015)
224,
2351
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431