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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

Exact hydrodynamics and onset of phase separation for an active exclusion process
J Mason, C Erignoux, RL Jack, M Bruna
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A
(2023)
479,
20230524
Necking and failure of a particulate gel strand: signatures of yielding on different length scales
K Thijssen, TB Liverpool, CP Royall, RL Jack
– Soft matter
(2023)
19,
7412
Active-passive mixtures with bulk loading: a minimal active engine in one dimension
JF Derivaux, RL Jack, ME Cates
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2023)
2023,
083212
How do Cicadas Emerge Together? Thermophysical Aspects of Their Collective Decision-Making
R Goldstein, R Jack, A Pesci
(2023)
Tricritical Behavior in Dynamical Phase Transitions.
T Agranov, ME Cates, RL Jack
– Physical Review Letters
(2023)
131,
017102
Intermittent relaxation and avalanches in extremely persistent active matter.
Y-E Keta, R Mandal, P Sollich, RL Jack, L Berthier
– Soft Matter
(2023)
19,
3871
Thermal vestiges of avalanches in the driven random field Ising model
L Yao, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2023)
2023,
023303
Macroscopic Behaviour in a Two-Species Exclusion Process Via the Method of Matched Asymptotics
J Mason, RL Jack, M Bruna
– Journal of Statistical Physics
(2023)
190,
47
Necking and failure of a particulate gel strand: signatures of yielding on different length scales
K Thijssen, TB Liverpool, CP Royall, RL Jack
– SOFT MATTER
(2023)
Entropy production and its large deviations in an active lattice gas
T Agranov, ME Cates, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2022)
2022,
123201
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431