Julia Yeomans

Julia Mary Yeomans FRS FInstP (born 15 October 1954)[4] is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics.[5][6][7][8] She has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002.[9][10][2]

Julia Yeomans

FRS FInstP
Julia Yeomans speaking at Breaking Brains in 2018
Born
Julia Mary Yeomans

(1954-10-15) 15 October 1954
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1990)​
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Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisCritical phenomena in disordered systems (1979)
Doctoral advisorRobin Stinchcombe[3]
Websitewww-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JuliaYeomans/

Early life and education

Yeomans was born on 15 October 1954 in Derby, Derbyshire, England.[4] She was educated at the University of Oxford where she was an undergraduate student of Somerville College, Oxford, for her BA and a postgraduate student at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theoretical physics in 1979.[3] where her doctoral research on critical phenomena in spin models was supervised by Robin Stinchcombe .[3]

Research and career

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.[9]

Yeomans is a professor at the Rudolf Peierls centre for theoretical physics. Her research investigates theoretical modelling of processes in complex fluids including liquid crystals, drops on hydrophobic surfaces, microchannels, as well as bacteria.[11]

Yeomans' research was presented for a younger and more general audience in Nature's Raincoats: Bio-inspired surface science at the Royal Society summer science exhibition in 2009.[12]

Awards and honours

In 2012, Yeomans was awarded a European Research Council advanced research grant for her research proposal Microflow in complex environments.[13] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013, where her nomination reads:[11]

Julia Yeomans is distinguished for her development of novel numerical and analytical modelling tools to investigate a wide range of complex fluids. New approaches are needed for these materials because the physics covers a wide range of length and time scales, from details of microscopic molecular interactions to collective hydrodynamics. Yeomans' research, which combines her expertise in statistical physics with the power of modern computers, is multifaceted, covering self assembly at molecular and macroscopic levels, drops moving in microchannels and on superhydrophobic surfaces, the rheology of highly non-Newtonian fluids such as liquid crystals, and most recently, interactions between bacterial swimmers.

Personal life

Yeomans married Peter Hore in 1990.[1]

References
  1. "Professor Julia Yeomans | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
  2. Julia Yeomans publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. Yeomans, Julia Mary (1979). Critical phenomena in disordered systems. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 301783637. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.478290.
  4. Anon (2017). "Yeomans, Prof. Julia Mary". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258303. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  5. Julia Yeomans publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. Swift, M.; Osborn, W.; Yeomans, J. (1995). "Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Nonideal Fluids". Physical Review Letters. 75 (5): 830–833. arXiv:comp-gas/9502002. Bibcode:1995PhRvL..75..830S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.830. PMID 10060129.
  7. Kaufman, M.; Griffiths, R.; Yeomans, J.; Fisher, M. (1981). "Three-component model and tricritical points: A renormalization-group study. Two dimensions". Physical Review B. 23 (7): 3448–3459. Bibcode:1981PhRvB..23.3448K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.23.3448.
  8. Price, G. D.; Yeomans, J. (1984). "The application of the ANNNI model to polytypic behaviour". Acta Crystallographica Section B. 40 (5): 448–454. doi:10.1107/S0108768184002469.
  9. "Oxford Physics: Soft and Biological Matter". Oxford University. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  10. Julia Yeomans publications from Europe PubMed Central
  11. Anon (2013). "Professor Julia Yeomans FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  12. "Nature's Raincoats". naturesraincoats.org. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  13. "ERC Advanced Grant 2011" (PDF). erc.europa.eu. European Research Council. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
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