Robert Jack

Professor of Statistical Mechanics (Chemistry / DAMTP)
Fellow of Emmanuel College
(he/him)

Email: rlj22 AT cam.ac.uk

Links to: publications; some useful people.

News...

Apr-2024: Paper on active turbulence accepted by PRL.
Apr-2024: Preprint on extinction events appears on arXiv.
Mar-2024: Paper on active wetting appears in Soft Matter.
Feb-2024: Paper on metastable quantum systems appears in Phys Rev A.
Feb-2024: Paper on cicadas appears in Phys. Rev. E.

Research directions

How fast do complex systems change? Why do some fluids (like water) flow quickly while others (like honey) flow very slowly? How can biological systems build nano-scale ordered structures so quickly and reliably?

What statistical methods can we use to describe change in physical systems? In particular, what happens when motion takes place by localised rare events (cage hopping, avalanches, earthquakes...)?

Research group:
Current:
Dr Himangsu Bhaumik (chemistry); Liheng Yao (damtp); Honghao Yu (chemistry); Calum Brown (damtp); Dawid Dopierała (damtp).
Co-supervised:
James Mason (with Maria Bruna); Janik Schüttler (with Mike Cates); Jimin Li (with Juan Garrahan).
Ex-group:
Dr. Kristian Thijssen; Dr. Hideki Kobayashi; Dr. Jules Guioth; Dr. Chris Fullerton; Dr. Lester Hedges; Dr. Daphne Klotsa; Dr. Yann-Edwin Keta; Dr. Paul Rohrbach; Dr. Jakub Dolezal; Dr. Marcus Kaiser; Dr. Tobias Brewer; Dr. James Grant; Dr. Clement Law; Dr. Ian Thompson; Ed Wastell; Dr. Jeremy O'Byrne; Ian Wu; Greg Wood; Sophie Bennett; Ellery Gopaoco.

Links to...
RLJ @ DAMTP
RLJ @ Cambridge chemistry
... DAMTP home

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