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
Effects of vertical confinement on gelation and sedimentation of colloids.
– Soft matter
(2017)
13,
3230
(doi: 10.1039/c6sm02221a)
Optimising self-assembly through time-dependent interactions.
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2016)
145,
244505
(doi: 10.1063/1.4972861)
Absence of dissipation in trajectory ensembles biased by currents
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2016)
2016,
093305
Coarse-grained depletion potentials for anisotropic colloids: Application to lock-and-key systems.
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2016)
145,
084907
(doi: 10.1063/1.4961541)
Note: Physical mechanisms for the bulk melting of stable glasses.
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2016)
145,
076101
(doi: 10.1063/1.4961230)
Structure of inactive states of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2016)
2016,
074012
The melting of stable glasses is governed by nucleation-and-growth dynamics.
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2016)
144,
244506
(doi: 10.1063/1.4954327)
Population-dynamics method with a multicanonical feedback control.
– Phys Rev E
(2016)
93,
062123
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.93.062123)
Ideal bulk pressure of active Brownian particles.
– Phys Rev E
(2016)
93,
062605
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.062605)
Phase Transition for Quenched Coupled Replicas in a Plaquette Spin Model of Glasses.
– Physical Review Letters
(2016)
116,
055702
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