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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

Evidence for a Disordered Critical Point in a Glass-Forming Liquid.
L Berthier, RL Jack
– Phys Rev Lett
(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
– Phys Rev Lett
(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
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2013)
88,
062113
Large deviations of the dynamical activity in the East model: Analysing structure in biased trajectories
RL Jack, P Sollich
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2013)
47,
015003
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431