University Associate Professor
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
Large deviations in models of growing clusters with symmetry-breaking transitions.
Phys Rev E
(2019)
100
012140
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.012140)
Unraveling the Large Deviation Statistics of Markovian Open Quantum Systems.
Physical review letters
(2019)
122
130605
Microscopic analysis of thermo-orientation in systems of off-centre Lennard-Jones particles.
The Journal of chemical physics
(2019)
150
134501
(doi: 10.1063/1.5089541)
Optimizing active work: Dynamical phase transitions, collective motion, and jamming.
Phys Rev E
(2019)
99
022605
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.022605)
Effects of random pinning on the potential energy landscape of a supercooled liquid.
The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2018)
149
114503
(doi: 10.1063/1.5042140)
Efficient characterisation of large deviations using population dynamics
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2018)
2018
053204
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/aab3ef)
Canonical Structure and Orthogonality of Forces and Currents in Irreversible Markov Chains
Journal of statistical physics
(2018)
170
1019
(doi: 10.1007/s10955-018-1986-0)
Stochastic level-set method for shape optimisation
Journal of Computational Physics
(2017)
348
82
(doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.07.010)
Symmetries and Geometrical Properties of Dynamical Fluctuations in Molecular Dynamics
Entropy
(2017)
19
562
(doi: 10.3390/e19100562)
Acceleration of Convergence to Equilibrium in Markov Chains by Breaking Detailed Balance.
Journal of statistical physics
(2017)
168
259
(doi: 10.1007/s10955-017-1805-z)
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