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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

Irreversibility and Biased Ensembles in Active Matter: Insights from Stochastic Thermodynamics
E Fodor, RL Jack, ME Cates
– Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
(2021)
13,
215
Dynamical phase transition in the activity-biased fully-connected random field Ising model: connection with glass-forming systems
J Guioth, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2021)
2021,
103206
Critical point for demixing of binary hard spheres.
H Kobayashi, PB Rohrbach, R Scheichl, NB Wilding, RL Jack
– Phys Rev E
(2021)
104,
044603
Efficient Bayesian inference of fully stochastic epidemiological models with applications to COVID-19
YI Li, G Turk, PB Rohrbach, P Pietzonka, J Kappler, R Singh, J Dolezal, T Ekeh, L Kikuchi, JD Peterson, A Bolitho, H Kobayashi, ME Cates, R Adhikari, RL Jack
– Royal Society open science
(2021)
8,
211065
Large Deviations at Level 2.5 for Markovian Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Jumps and Quantum State Diffusion
F Carollo, JP Garrahan, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Physics
(2021)
184,
13
Long-ranged correlations in large deviations of local clustering.
J Dolezal, RL Jack
– Phys Rev E
(2021)
103,
052132
Bayesian inference across multiple models suggests a strong increase in lethality of COVID-19 in late 2020 in the UK
P Pietzonka, E Brorson, W Bankes, ME Cates, RL Jack, R Adhikari
(2021)
2021.03.10.21253311
Collective motion in large deviations of active particles
Y-E Keta, É Fodor, F van Wijland, ME Cates, RL Jack
– Physical review. E
(2021)
103,
022603
Preface: Special issue ‘Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII’
CP Royall, RL Jack, J Russo, C Cammarota, JP Garrahan, P Sollich
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020,
104001
Giant leaps and long excursions: Fluctuation mechanisms in systems with long-range memory.
RL Jack, RJ Harris
– Physical review. E
(2020)
102,
012154
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431