Julia Yeomans | |
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.jpg) Yeomans in 2018 | |
| Born | Julia Mary Yeomans (1954-10-15)15 October 1954 (age 70) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Spouse | [3] |
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| Thesis | Critical phenomena in disordered systems (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Stinchcombe[2] |
| Website | www-thphys |
Julia Mary YeomansFRS OBE (born 15 October 1954[4]) is a Britishtheoretical physicist active in the fields ofsoft condensed matter andbiological physics.[5][6][7][8] She has served as Professor of Physics at theUniversity of Oxford since 2002.[9][10][1]
Yeomans was born on 15 October 1954 inDerby,Derbyshire, England.[4] She was educated at theUniversity of Oxford where she was an undergraduate student ofSomerville College, Oxford, for her BA and a postgraduate student atWolfson College, Oxford.[citation needed] She was awarded aDoctor of Philosophy degree intheoretical physics in 1979.[2] where her doctoral research oncritical phenomena inspin models was supervised byRobin Stinchcombe.[2]
After two years of working as apostdoctoral researcher atCornell University withMichael E. Fisher, she was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Physics at theUniversity 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 theRudolf Peierls centre for theoretical physics. Her research investigates theoretical modelling of processes in complex fluids includingliquid crystals, drops onhydrophobic surfaces,microchannels, as well asbacteria.[11]
Yeomans' research was presented for a younger and more general audience inNature's Raincoats: Bio-inspired surface science at theRoyal Society summer science exhibition in 2009.[12]
In 2012, Yeomans was awarded aEuropean Research Council advanced research grant for her research proposalMicroflow in complex environments.[13] She was elected aFellow 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 collectivehydrodynamics. 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 inmicrochannels and onsuperhydrophobic surfaces, therheology of highlynon-Newtonian fluids such asliquid crystals, and most recently, interactions between bacterial swimmers.
In 2021 she received theSam Edwards Medal and Prize from theInstitute of Physics, for her contributions to soft and active matter, statistical physics and biophysics.[14] In 2024 she was awarded the Liquid Matter Prize from theEuropean Physical Society.[15]
Yeomans was appointedOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the2024 New Year Honours for services to physics.[16]
Yeomans married chemistry professorPeter Hore in 1990.[3]
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