Profile
Nigel holds the
Chancellor's Distinguished Professorship in Physics and
joined UCSD in Fall 2021 after being at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1985-2021. Nigel's
research spans condensed matter theory, the theory of
living systems, hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium
statistical physics.
Nigel received his Ph.D.
from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 1982, and for
the years 1982-1985 was a postdoctoral fellow at the
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of
California at Santa Barbara. In 1996, Nigel co-founded
NumeriX, a company that specializes in high-performance
software for the derivatives marketplace. He has
served on the editorial boards of several journals,
including The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society and Physical Biology. Selected
honours include: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow,
University Scholar of the University of Illinois, the
Xerox Award for research, the A. Nordsieck award for
excellence in graduate teaching and the American Physical
Society's Leo P. Kadanoff Prize. Nigel is a Fellow of the
American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the US
National Academy of Sciences.
Current
Research Interests: please see Nigel's research
group's homepage.
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