| Personal Information |
Date of birth: 1 May, 1957
Citizenship: USA & UK |
| Present Position |
Chancellor's Distinguished Professorship in Physics, University
of California San Diego
Affiliated Professor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering, Halicioglu Data Science Institute (UCSD). |
Address
Awards and Honors |
University of California San Diego, Department of Physics, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0319, La Jolla CA 92903, USA
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) (2024)
Welsh Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada (2022)
Presidential Medallion of the University of Illinois (2021)
Infosys-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lectures, Bangalore (2020)
American Physical Society Leo P. Kadanoff Prize (2020)
Primakoff Lecture, University of Pennsylvania (2020)
Dashen Memorial Lecture, UCSD (2019)
Mark Kac Lecture, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)
APS Outstanding Referee (2019)
Arnold Sommerfeld Lectures, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (2018)
Sowers Symposium Lecturer, Virginia Technical University (2017)
Marshall N. Rosenbluth Lecture, Festival de Theorie, France (2017)
Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Crucker Eminent Faculty Award, UIUC (2017)
Elected Professor, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC (2013)
Elected Fellow of Institute of Physics, UK (2011)
Elected Member, US National Academy of Sciences (2010)
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
Rosenqvist Lecturer, University of Oslo (2010)
Swanlund Endowed Chair (2007 - present)
Norman Hascoe Distinguished Lecturer, University of Connecticut (2008)
Arthur O. Williams Lecturer, Brown University (2008)
A.E. Nordsieck Award for
Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2001)
APS Centennial Speaker (1999)
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)
National Science Foundation Creativity Award (1997)
University Scholar of the University of Illinois (1994-1997)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1987-1991)
Xerox Award for Junior Faculty Research (1991)
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, McMaster University (1989)
Beckman Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, Urbana (1988)
Exhibitioner, Pembroke College (1976)
Numerous appearances on the University of Illinois
Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent
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| Professional Experience |
2021 – present
2013 – 2021 |
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California San Diego
Director, Center for Universal Biology -- A NASA Astrobiology Institute @ UIUC |
2007 – 2021 |
Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2005 – 2021 |
Leader, Biocomplexity Group, Institute for Genomic Biology |
| 2003 |
Senior Visitor,
DAMTP, University of Cambridge |
| 1995 – 2021 |
Professor of
Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1996 |
Founder, NumeriX LLC |
| 1991 – 1995 |
Associate Professor,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1985 – 1991 |
Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1988 |
Visiting Scientist,
Stanford University |
| 1982 – 1985 |
Postdoc, Insititute
for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara |
| 1979 – 1982 |
Graduate student,
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge |
| 1976 – 1979 |
Undergraduate,
Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| 1976 |
Research Assistant,
National Physical Laboratory, England |
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| Research Interests |
Dynamics of pattern forming
systems, multi-scale modeling, phase transitions kinetics, front propagation, turbulence,
renormalization group theory for differential equations and singular perturbations,
critical phenomena, disordered systems, high temperature superconductivity, polymers and
liquid crystals, computational finance, evolutionary biology, ecology, quantitative epidemiology
Research
continually funded by the National Science Foundation from 1985-2024, by NASA, the US Department of Energy, the Simons Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. |
| Additional professional activities |
Chair, Section 33 Applied Physical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (2017-2020)
APS Early Career Soft Condensed Matter Prize Committee (2019)
APS Investment Committee (2018-2021)
Member, NAS Comstock Prize Committee (2013)
Editorial Board of
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2009-present)
Member, APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize Commitee (2009)
Editorial Board of Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (2008-present)
Reviewer, New directions for understanding systemic risk. (Fed Res. NY/NAS report, 2007)
Organiser, Program on Pattern
Formation in Physics and Biology, KITP
UC Santa Barbara, 2003.
International Advisory Committee, Renormalization Group 2000
Chair, APS Lars Onsager Prize Committee (1998)
Member, APS Lars Onsager Prize Committee (1997)
Editorial Board of International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (1996-present)
International Advisory Committee, Renormalization Group 1996
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Program Committee (1995)
US Dept. of Energy Applied Mathematics Panel (1992)
Reviewer for Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters and other
journals; National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, NASA, US-Israel Binational Science
Foundation and other government and private grant-awarding agencies.
25 students supervised to Ph.D, 23 postdocs |
| Education |
1979 – 1982 University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Ph.D Theoretical Physics
- Advisor: Prof. Sir Sam Edwards, FRS
- Title: Statistical Mechanics of Polymers in the Solid State
1976 – 1979 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
B.A. (Cantab) Natural Sciences, specialising in theoretical physics
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