Dr Michael Jack
Senior Lecturer
physics
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
My undergraduate studies were undertaken at the University of Canterbury and my postgraduate studies at the University of Auckland. From 2000 to 2005 I held postdoctoral positions at Hiroshima University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, NTT Basic Research Laboratories (Tokyo, Japan) and Rice University (Houston, USA). I then held a range of positions at the New Zealand Crown Research Institute Scion until 2014, including Science Leader of Clean Technologies, after which I joined the Department as a Senior lecturer.
Research Interest
My current research has two areas of focus. Sustainable energy physics Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of molecular motors
Publications
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Jack, M. W., & Tumlin, C. (2016). Intrinsic irreversibility limits the efficiency of multidimensional molecular motors. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, & Soft Matter Physics, 93, 052109. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.052109
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Nguyen, P. T. T., Challis, K. J., & Jack, M. W. (2016). Local discretization method for overdamped Brownian motion on a potential with multiple deep wells. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, & Soft Matter Physics, 94(5), 052127. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.052127
