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

Emergence of glass-like behavior in Markov state models of protein folding dynamics.

JK Weber, RL Jack, VS Pande

– Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2013)

135,

5501

(doi: 10.1021/ja4002663)

Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme.

D Klotsa, RL Jack

– The Journal of Chemical Physics

(2013)

138,

094502

(doi: 10.1063/1.4793527)

Space-time phase transitions in the East model with a softened kinetic constraint.

YS Elmatad, RL Jack

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2013)

138,

12a531

(doi: 10.1063/1.4779110)

Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions.

RL Jack, L Berthier

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2012)

85,

021120

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.021120)

Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: An analogy with self-assembly

J Grant, RL Jack

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2012)

85,

021112

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.021112)

Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid.

RL Jack, LO Hedges, JP Garrahan, D Chandler

– Physical review letters

(2011)

107,

275702

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.275702)

Analyzing mechanisms and microscopic reversibility of self-assembly.

J Grant, RL Jack, S Whitelam

– The Journal of chemical physics

(2011)

135,

214505

(doi: 10.1063/1.3662140)

Overview of different characterizations of dynamic heterogeneity

L Berthier, G Biroli, JP Bouchaud, RL Jack

(2011)

9780199691470,

68

(doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691470.003.0003)

Mechanisms of kinetic trapping in self-assembly and phase transformation

MF Hagan, OM Elrad, RL Jack

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2011)

135,

104115

(doi: 10.1063/1.3635775)

Predicting the self-assembly of a model colloidal crystal

D Klotsa, RL Jack

– Soft Matter

(2011)

7,

6294

(doi: 10.1039/c1sm05456b)