Ramin Golestanian

The research activities in my group are focused on various problems in the general area of soft condensed matter. We aim to understand the physical and structural properties of both synthetic and biological soft matter, taking into account structural and entropic elasticity, electrostatic interactions, dispersion forces, hydrodynamics, and equilibrium and non-equilibrium fluctuations. These studies are performed using a variety of theoretical tools ranging from analytical tools to Brownian dynamics and Molecular Dynamics simulations. We also apply our knowledge of how things work at the nano-scale to propose designs for machines that could do useful mechanical tasks and analyze their feasibility and the emergent properties of a collection of such devices interacting with each other.

• Trinity 2012: 1st Year undergraduate Multiple Integrals and Vector Calculus Revision Lectures. My lecture notes are attached at the top of this page.
• Michaelmas 2011: A graduate course on Advanced Statistical Physics. The course material can be found here.

I also do undergraduate tutorial teaching at Exeter College: 1st Year Electricity and Magnetism, 1st Year Optics, 2nd Year Thermal/Statistical Physics.