I am an Assistant Professor in Physics and Complexity Science working in theoretical soft matter physics. My main interests at present are in applications of geometry and topology to the understanding of soft materials, where I have worked primarily on defects in liquid crystals, and self-propulsion in low Reynolds number hydrodynamics and active matter.

Before moving to Warwick I was a post-doc at UPenn working with Randy Kamien. And before that I was a DPhil student in Oxford with Julia Yeomans.

Teaching activities

In 2012/2013 I will lecture the following courses:

• PX439/CO904 Statistical Mechanics of Complex Sytems
• PX261 Mathematical Methods for Physicists II

Recent publications

• "Conformal smectics and their many metrics", Phys. Rev. E 85, 070501(R) (2012).

 with Randall D. Kamien and Ricardo A. Mosna

• "Disclination loops, point defects, and all that in nematic liquid crystals", Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 497-514 (2012).

 with Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, and Randall D. Kamien

Write to:

Centre for Complexity Science, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

Contact Details:

Office: D1.09 Zeeman Building
Telephone:
44 (0)2476 150210
Fax:

E-Mail:
G.P.Alexander@warwick.ac.uk