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
Anomalous approach to thermodynamic equilibrium: Structure formation of molecules after vapor deposition
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2015)
92,
052402
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052402)
Dynamical phase transitions in one-dimensional hard-particle systems.
– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
(2015)
92,
052115
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052115)
Overlap and activity glass transitions in plaquette spin models with hierarchical dynamics.
– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
(2015)
92,
022115
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.022115)
Self-assembly and crystallisation of indented colloids at a planar wall.
– Soft Matter
(2015)
11,
6089
(doi: 10.1039/c5sm01043h)
Effective interactions and large deviations in stochastic processes
– European Physical Journal Special Topics
(2015)
224,
2351
(doi: 10.1140/epjst/e2015-02416-9)
Porous Liquid Phases for Indented Colloids with Depletion Interactions.
– Physical review letters
(2015)
114,
237801
Evidence for a Disordered Critical Point in a Glass-Forming Liquid.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2015)
114,
205701
Hyperuniformity and phase separation in biased ensembles of trajectories for diffusive systems.
– Physical review letters
(2015)
114,
060601
The statistical mechanics of dynamic pathways to self-assembly.
– Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
(2014)
66,
1
Geometrical interpretation of fluctuating hydrodynamics in diffusive systems
– Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
(2014)
47,
485001
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