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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

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
Role of initial conditions in $1D$ diffusive systems: compressibility, hyperuniformity and long-term memory
T Banerjee, RL Jack, ME Cates
– Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(2022)
106,
l062101
Dimensionality reduction of local structure in glassy binary mixtures.
D Coslovich, RL Jack, J Paret
– J Chem Phys
(2022)
157,
204503
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431