Julia Yeomans
{{short description|British theoretical physicist (born 1954)}}
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| alma_mater = University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
| thesis_title = Critical phenomena in disordered systems
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| doctoral_advisor = Robin Stinchcombe
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Julia Mary Yeomans {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRS}} (born 15 October 1954) is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics.{{Scopus id}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.830| title = Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Nonideal Fluids| journal = Physical Review Letters| volume = 75| issue = 5| pages = 830–833| year = 1995| last1 = Swift | first1 = M. | last2 = Osborn | first2 = W.| last3 = Yeomans | first3 = J. | pmid=10060129| bibcode = 1995PhRvL..75..830S| arxiv = comp-gas/9502002| s2cid = 15016659}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevB.23.3448| title = Three-component model and tricritical points: A renormalization-group study. Two dimensions| journal = Physical Review B| volume = 23| issue = 7| pages = 3448–3459| year = 1981| last1 = Kaufman | first1 = M. | last2 = Griffiths | first2 = R. | last3 = Yeomans | first3 = J. | last4 = Fisher | first4 = M. | bibcode = 1981PhRvB..23.3448K}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1107/S0108768184002469| title = The application of the ANNNI model to polytypic behaviour| journal = Acta Crystallographica Section B| volume = 40| issue = 5| pages = 448–454| year = 1984| last1 = Price | first1 = G. D.| last2 = Yeomans | first2 = J.| doi-access = free| bibcode = 1984AcCrB..40..448P}} She has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JuliaYeomans/|title=Oxford Physics: Soft and Biological Matter|publisher=Oxford University|access-date=10 October 2013}}{{EuropePMC}}{{Google scholar id}}
Early life and education
Yeomans was born on 15 October 1954 in Derby, Derbyshire, England.{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Yeomans, Prof. Julia Mary | id = U258303 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258303 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}} 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.{{fact|date=November 2020}} She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theoretical physics in 1979.{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|first=Julia Mary|last=Yeomans|title=Critical phenomena in disordered systems|year=1979|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=oxfaleph016929776|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.478290}}|website=ox.ac.uk|publisher=University of Oxford|oclc=301783637|archive-date=14 October 2022|access-date=10 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014150207/https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=oxfaleph016929776|url-status=dead}} where her doctoral research on critical phenomena in spin models was supervised by Robin Stinchcombe.
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.
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.
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.naturesraincoats.org/|title=Nature's Raincoats|website=naturesraincoats.org|access-date=11 October 2013}}
=Honours and awards=
In 2012, Yeomans was awarded a European Research Council advanced research grant for her research proposal Microflow in complex environments.{{cite web|url=http://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2011_adg_results_all_domains.pdf|title=ERC Advanced Grant 2011|publisher=European Research Council|access-date=10 October 2013|website=erc.europa.eu}} She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013, where her nomination reads:{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/people/julia-yeomans/|title=Professor Julia Yeomans FRS|publisher= Royal Society|location=London|year=2013|author=Anon|website=royalsociety.org|access-date=10 October 2013}}
{{cquote|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.}}
In 2021 she received the Sam Edwards Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics, for her contributions to soft and active matter, statistical physics and biophysics.{{Cite web |title=2021 Sam Edwards Medal and Prize |url=https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2021-sam-edwards-medal-and-prize |website=iop.org}} In 2024 she was awarded the Liquid Matter Prize from the European Physical Society.{{Cite web |title=EPS-CMD Liquid Matter Prize |url=https://www.eps.org/members/group_content_view.asp?group=85187&id=757880 |website=www.eps.org}}
Yeomans was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to physics.{{London Gazette|issue=64269|supp=y|page=N17|date=30 December 2023}}
Personal life
Yeomans married chemistry professor Peter Hore in 1990.
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