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Julia Yeomans

Julia Yeomans

Professor Julia Yeomans FRS

Fellow


Elected: 2013

Biography

Julia Mary Yeomans is a theoretical physicist researching the behaviour of soft condensed matter, such as polymers, gels and liquid crystals, at the tiny scale where viscous forces are high compared to inertial forces. Her work has advanced our understanding of droplets in microchannels, of super-water-repellent surfaces and of how certain bacteria ‘swim’. Julia’s research is important to areas as diverse as inkjet printing and the development of artificial ‘microswimmers’ for medical use.

As well as analytical techniques, Julia applies sophisticated computational methods to model behaviour at close to the molecular level. This brings together hydrodynamics — how fluids behave in motion — and statistical physics, which is the use of probabilistic methods to predict the collective behaviour of many individual systems.

Julia’s work was recognised with the EPJE Pierre Gilles De Gennes Lecture Prize in 2013. She also has a keen interest in outreach work, including service on the advisory panel of the Institute of Physics Women in Physics Group.

Professional positions

Professor of Physics, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford

Interest and expertise

Subject groups

  • Astronomy and physics
    • Computational physics, Mathematical and theoretical physics, Statistical
  • Engineering
    • Engineering, chemical, Fluid dynamics

Keywords

statistical physics, soft matter physics, active matter, polymers, liquid crystals, fluid-surface interactions

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