Professor of Statistical Mechanics
My research group includes people in the Dept of Chemistry and in the Dept of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). We investigate questions from physics, chemistry and mathematics, using the theory of statistical mechanics to understand the behaviour of complex systems including biomolecules, glassy liquids, and soft matter. I am particularly interested in co-operative dynamics: for example, how do molecules move in crowded environments? What are the co-operative mechanisms for colloidal self-assembly, and the folding of biomolecules?
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Publications
Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme.
– 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
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
12a531
(doi: 10.1063/1.4779110)
Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2012)
85,
021120
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.85.021120)
Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: An analogy with self-assembly
– Physical Review E
(2012)
85,
021112
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.021112)
Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid
– Physical review letters
(2011)
107,
275702
Analyzing mechanisms and microscopic reversibility of self-assembly.
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2011)
135,
214505
(doi: 10.1063/1.3662140)
Mechanisms of kinetic trapping in self-assembly and phase transformation
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2011)
135,
104115
(doi: 10.1063/1.3635775)
Overview of different characterizations of dynamic heterogeneity
(2011)
9780199691470,
68
Predicting the self-assembly of a model colloidal crystal
– Soft Matter
(2011)
7,
6294
(doi: 10.1039/c1sm05456b)
Duality Symmetries in Driven One-Dimensional Hopping Models
– Progress of Theoretical Physics
(2010)
184,
200
(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.200)
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