CV: Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld
Theoretical physicist, College Lecturer in Natural Sciences and and Bye-Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
Education
1989 PhD (Summa Cum Laude) Theoretical Physics, Tel Aviv University
1986 MSc (Summa Cum Laude) Physics, Tel Aviv University
1984 BSc (Summa Cum Laude) Physics, Tel Aviv University
Appointments
2020–2025 Senior Research Fellow, Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London
2019–present Distinguished Professor, Central South University, Hunan, China
2014–2017 Distinguished Professor, National University of Defense Technology, Hunan, China
2013–present Editor, Granular Matter Journal, Springer
2012–present Bye-Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
2010–2012 Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London
2009–present College Lecturer, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
2005–2019 Research Fellow, Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London
1997–1998 Project Leader, Molecular Simulations Inc., Cambridge, UK
1996–1997 Research Scientist (with Prof. S. Orszag), Cambridge Hydrodynamics, Princeton, NJ, USA
1993–1996 Director's Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA
1992–1993 PDRA, Princeton University, NJ, USA
1989–1992 PDRA, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
1987 Visiting Scientist (with Prof. B.B. Mandelbrot), IBM Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Honours, awards & grants
2024 9-month Shell Brunei grant (CoI)
2020–2023 3-year Shell Brunei grant (CoI)
2019– Awarded "High Level Foreign Talent", China government
2018 JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship BR180304
2016–2020 4-year BP-ICAM grant
2015– Awardee of the 1000-Talent plan, China government
2010–2014 EPSRC EP/H051716/1
2008–2009 EOARD Grant 083046
2005–2008 EPSRC Grant GR/T28959/01
1989 Distinction Award, Tel Aviv University
1982–1988 Scholarship Awards, Tel Aviv University
Selected professional activities
2025 Organiser, 9th Edwards Symposium - Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter
2024 Organiser, 8th Edwards Symposium — Statistical Physics of Soft and Multicomponent Systems, Cambridge
2023 Organiser, 7th Edwards Symposium — New Paradigms in Soft Matter and Statistical Physics, Cambridge
2022 Organiser, 6th Edwards Symposium — Soft Matter for the 21st Century, Cambridge
2021 Organiser, 5th Edwards Symposium — Emerging Trends in Soft Matter, Cambridge
2019 Organiser, 4th Edwards Symposium — Emerging Trends in Soft Matter, Cambridge
2018 Organiser, 3rd Edwards Symposium — New Horizons in Soft Matter, Cambridge
2018 6 lectures, Summer School on Soft Matter and Biophysics, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
2018 Focus Session Organiser & Session Chair, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles
2017 Organiser, 2nd Edwards Symposium — Challenges and Opportunities in Soft Matter, Cambridge
2016 Member, core team of The Edwards Centre for Soft Matter, Cambridge University
2016 Organiser, 1st Edwards Symposium — Celebrating the Pioneering Work of Sir Sam Edwards, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
2013–present Editor of Granular Matter journal, Springer
2007 Discussion Leader, Workshop on Jamming, Aspen Center for Physics
2004–2006 Organiser, Working Group on Dimensional Reduction in Many-Variable Systems, EU COST Action P10