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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

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
– Phys Rev Lett
(2015)
114,
060601
The statistical mechanics of dynamic pathways to self-assembly.
S Whitelam, RL Jack
– Annu Rev Phys Chem
(2014)
66,
1
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
Investigating amorphous order in stable glasses by random pinning
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
– Physical Review Letters
(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
– J Chem Phys
(2014)
140,
104907
Counting metastable states in a kinetically constrained model using a patch repetition analysis
RL Jack
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2013)
88,
062113
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431