Biography:Eric Weeks
Eric R. Weeks | |
|---|---|
| Born | Downers Grove, Illinois, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Known for | Contributions in the fields of Confocal Microscopy, Colloidal Glasses, Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Jamming, Microrheology, Particle Tracking, and Granular Materials. |
| Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), American Physical Society Outstanding Referee" (inaugural group) (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Emory University |
| Doctoral advisor | Harry Swinney |
Eric R. Weeks (born 1970 in Downers Grove, Illinois) is an American physicist. He completed his B.Sc. at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1992. He obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997, working under Harry Swinney, and later completed post-doctoral research with David Weitz and Arjun Yodh at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a full professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (as of September 2010).[1]
He is most well known for his work on various aspects of the jamming (physics) phenomenon, specifically in colloidal glasses[2][3] and colloidal supercooled liquids,[4][5] although his research interests extend broadly into other types of complex fluids, as well as microrheology[6][7] and granular materials.
External links
- Eric R. Weeks
- Weekslab Homepage
- Emory Department of Physics
- "A Window into Glass Formation"
- "Witnessing transition at a crystal/liquid interface"
References
- ↑ [1] Eric Weeks' Information Page at Emory University
- ↑ "Direct visualization of ageing in colloidal glasses" RE Courtland and ER Weeks, J Phys: Cond Mat 15, S359-S365 (2003)
- ↑ "Short and long range correlated motion observed in colloidal glasses and liquids" ER Weeks, JC Crocker, DA Weitz, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 19, 205131 (2007)
- ↑ "Three-dimensional direct imaging of structural relaxation near the colloidal glass transition" ER Weeks, JC Crocker, AC Levitt, A Schofield, and DA Weitz, Science 287, 627 (2000).
- ↑ "Properties of cage rearrangements observed near the colloidal glass transition" ER Weeks and DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 095704 (2002).
- ↑ "Two-particle microrheology of quasi-2D viscous systems" V Prasad, SA Koehler, ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 176001 (2006)
- ↑ "Two-point microrheology of inhomogeneous soft materials" JC Crocker, MT Valentine, ER Weeks, T Gisler, PD Kaplan, AG Yodh, and DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 888 (2000).
 |
