Professor Robert Jack | Soft Matter

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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

Geometrical interpretation of fluctuating hydrodynamics in diffusive systems

RL Jack, J Zimmer

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2014)

47,

485001

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/47/48/485001)

Information-Theoretic Measurements of Coupling between Structure and Dynamics in Glass Formers

RL Jack, AJ Dunleavy, CP Royall

– Physical Review Letters

(2014)

113,

095703

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.095703)

Dynamical phase transitions reveal amyloid-like states on protein folding landscapes.

JK Weber, RL Jack, CR Schwantes, VS Pande

– Biophysical Journal

(2014)

107,

974

(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.06.046)

Investigating Amorphous Order in Stable Glasses by Random Pinning

CJ Fullerton, RL Jack

– Physical Review Letters

(2014)

112,

255701

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.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

(doi: 10.1063/1.4867785)

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

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.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

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/47/1/015003)

Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key binding

DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding

– Soft Matter

(2013)

9,

9661

(doi: 10.1039/c3sm51839f)

Dynamical correlations in a glass former with randomly pinned particles

RL Jack, CJ Fullerton

– Physical Review E

(2013)

88,

042304

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.042304)

Dynamical phase transitions in supercooled liquids: interpreting measurements of dynamical activity.

CJ Fullerton, RL Jack

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2013)

138,

224506

(doi: 10.1063/1.4808152)