Department Name: Isaac Newton Institute

Research:

I am a theoretical physicist broadly working in the area of statistical physics, stochastic systems, soft matter, and biophysics.

Current questions/topics that I am thinking and researching about:

• How to best steer continuous and discrete-state active matter to perform useful functions efficiently?
• Exploring efficient and robust optimization of active matter simulations.
• Can we leverage ideas from statistical geometry to understand the thermodynamics of active matter?
• Biophysics and control of assemblies of disordered proteins and biomolecular condensates.

Awards, Degrees, Honours

Isaac Newton Institute Research Fellowship, Flora Philip Research Fellowship (Edinburgh), PM Davidson Prize (MPhys), MPhys, DPhil, Honorary Research Fellowship (UCL)

Profile

Luke received his MPhys in Theoretical Physics at Swansea University, where he also won the PM Davidson Prize. He then completed a DPhil in Physics at UCL, then conducted a research stint at the University of Toronto. Luke has assumed Postdoctoral positions at the University of Luxembourg (Physics) and UCL (Mathematics). Luke aims to understand, design, and take control of collective and stochastic states in living and active matter. A thread running through all of his research is the building of minimal “bare bones” models.

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein.

Very open to discuss physics, math, and everything else!