Phillip M. Duxbury
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Phillip M. Duxbury is an Australian-American physicist and academic administrator specializing in condensed matter theory and statistical mechanics. He is a professor of physics at Michigan State University (MSU), where he has been on the faculty since 1986.[1] He served as dean of MSU's College of Natural Science from 2018 to 2024.[2][3] Duxbury is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[1]
Education
Duxbury received his Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Western Australia in Perth and his PhD in physics from the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 1983.[1][4]
Career
Duxbury joined the Michigan State University faculty in 1986 as an assistant professor of physics. He was promoted to associate professor in 1994 and to full professor in 1998.[1] During his tenure at MSU, he has held a number of administrative and leadership roles, including graduate studies director in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, associate director of the MSU Center for Fundamental Materials Research, director of the Center for Nanomaterials Design and Assembly, and director of the Center of Research Excellence in Complex Materials.[1]
From 2013 to 2018, Duxbury served as chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.[2] In August 2018, he was appointed dean of MSU's College of Natural Science.[2] He served as dean until September 2024, when he was succeeded by Eric Hegg.[3]
Research
Duxbury's research includes work on rigidity percolation, nanostructure determination, polymer-nanoparticle systems, ultrafast electron diffraction, and the application of combinatorial optimization methods to problems in statistical physics.[1][4]
Duxbury has made contributions to the understanding of rigidity percolation, the study of how disordered networks transition from mechanically floppy to rigid states.[5][6] He also co-edited the volume Rigidity Theory and Applications (Springer, 2002) with Thorpe.[7] Another area is computational methods for determining the atomic structure of nanomaterials from experimental data, particularly pair distribution function (PDF) analysis.[8] A 2006 paper described general strategies for nanoparticle dispersion in polymer matrices, work with applications to organic and perovskite solar cells.[9] Duxbury has also contributed to the development and theoretical modelling of ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) systems, including work on space-charge effects, photoemission physics, and the use of RF cavities for beam compression.[1][4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Phillip M Duxbury". College of Natural Science, Michigan State University. Retrieved 2026-03-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Phillip Duxbury recommended as dean of College of Natural Science". MSUToday. 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2026-03-21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Eric Hegg recommended as dean of MSU's College of Natural Science". MSUToday. 2024-07-30. Retrieved 2026-03-21.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Phillip Duxbury – Department of Physics and Astronomy". Michigan State University. Retrieved 2026-03-21.
- ↑ Moukarzel, C.; Duxbury, P. M. (1995). "Stressed backbone and elasticity of random central-force systems". Physical Review Letters. 75 (22): 4055–4058. arXiv:cond-mat/9612237. Bibcode:1995PhRvL..75.4055M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4055. PMID 10059802.
- ↑ Duxbury, P. M.; Jacobs, D. J.; Thorpe, M. F.; Moukarzel, C. (1999). "Floppy modes and the free energy: Rigidity and connectivity percolation on Bethe lattices". Physical Review E. 59 (2): 2084–2092. arXiv:cond-mat/9807073. Bibcode:1999PhRvE..59.2084D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.59.2084.
- ↑ Thorpe, M. F.; Duxbury, P. M. (2002). Rigidity Theory and Applications. Fundamental Materials Research. Boston, MA: Springer. ISBN 978-0-306-46115-6. Search this book on
- ↑ Juhás, P.; Cherba, D. M.; Duxbury, P. M.; Punch, W. F.; Billinge, S. J. L. (2006). "Ab initio determination of solid-state nanostructure". Nature. 440 (7084): 655–658. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..655J. doi:10.1038/nature04556. PMID 16572168.
- ↑ Mackay, Michael E.; Tuteja, Anish; Duxbury, Phillip M.; Hawker, Craig J.; Van Horn, Brooke; Guan, Zhibin; Chen, Guanghui; Krishnan, R. S. (2006). "General Strategies for Nanoparticle Dispersion". Science. 311 (5768): 1740–1743. Bibcode:2006Sci...311.1740M. doi:10.1126/science.1122225. PMID 16556836.
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- 20th-century Australian physicists
- American condensed matter physicists
- 20th-century American physicists
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Michigan State University faculty
- University of Western Australia alumni
- University of New South Wales alumni
- 21st-century American physicists
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