Residence Oxford, United Kingdom Name Julia Yeomans | Spouse Peter Hore | |
Born Julia Mary Yeomans 15 October 1954 (age 70) ( 1954-10-15 ) Institutions University of SouthamptonCornell UniversityUniversity of Oxford Thesis Critical phenomena in disordered systems (1979) Doctoral students David HaydockNorio KikuchiNidhal Sulaiman | ||
Doctoral advisor Robin Stinchcombe Academic advisor Robin Stinchcombe | ||
Oxford university physics society prof julia yeomans nature s engines powering life
Julia Mary Yeomans, FRS, FInstP, is a British theoretical physicist and academic. She is active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics. She is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.
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- Oxford university physics society prof julia yeomans nature s engines powering life
- Topology in biology by julia yeomans
- Education
- Research
- Honours
- References
Topology in biology by julia yeomans
Education
Yeomans was educated at Wolfson College, Oxford where she was awarded a DPhil degree in Theoretical Physics in 1979). During her DPhil research, she worked with Robin Stinchcombe on critical phenomena in spin models.
Research
After two years of working as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University with Michael E. Fisher, she was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Physics at the University of Southampton in 1981. In 1983, she moved to the University of Oxford where she became a professor in 2002.
Yeomans is a professor at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. Her research concentrates in theoretical modelling of processes in complex fluids including liquid crystals, drops on hydrophobic surfaces, microchannels, as well as bacteria.
Yeomans' research is available for a younger audience under the guise of Nature's Raincoats: bio-inspired super water-repellent surfaces. This was first presented for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2009.
Honours
In 2012, Yeomans was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Research Grant for her research proposal "Microflow in complex environments".
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. Her nomination reads: