CV: Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld
Theoretical physicist, College Lecturer in Natural Sciences and and Bye-Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
Education
1989PhD (Summa Cum Laude) Theoretical Physics, Tel Aviv University
1986MSc (Summa Cum Laude) Physics, Tel Aviv University
1984BSc (Summa Cum Laude) Physics, Tel Aviv University
Appointments
2020–2025Senior Research Fellow, Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London
2019–presentDistinguished Professor, Central South University, Hunan, China
2014–2017Distinguished Professor, National University of Defense Technology, Hunan, China
2013–present Editor, Granular Matter Journal, Springer
2012–presentBye-Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
2010–2012Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London
2009–presentCollege Lecturer, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
2005–2019Research Fellow, Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London
1997–1998Project Leader, Molecular Simulations Inc., Cambridge, UK
1996–1997Research Scientist (with Prof. S. Orszag), Cambridge Hydrodynamics, Princeton, NJ, USA
1993–1996Director's Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA
1992–1993PDRA, Princeton University, NJ, USA
1989–1992PDRA, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
1987Visiting Scientist (with Prof. B.B. Mandelbrot), IBM Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Honours, awards & grants
20249-month Shell Brunei grant (CoI)
2020–20233-year Shell Brunei grant (CoI)
2019–Awarded "High Level Foreign Talent", China government
2018JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship BR180304
2016–20204-year BP-ICAM grant
2015–Awardee of the 1000-Talent plan, China government
2010–2014EPSRC EP/H051716/1
2008–2009EOARD Grant 083046
2005–2008EPSRC Grant GR/T28959/01
1989Distinction Award, Tel Aviv University
1982–1988Scholarship Awards, Tel Aviv University
Selected professional activities
2025Organiser, 9th Edwards Symposium - Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter
2024Organiser, 8th Edwards Symposium — Statistical Physics of Soft and Multicomponent Systems, Cambridge
2023Organiser, 7th Edwards Symposium — New Paradigms in Soft Matter and Statistical Physics, Cambridge
2022Organiser, 6th Edwards Symposium — Soft Matter for the 21st Century, Cambridge
2021Organiser, 5th Edwards Symposium — Emerging Trends in Soft Matter, Cambridge
2019Organiser, 4th Edwards Symposium — Emerging Trends in Soft Matter, Cambridge
2018Organiser, 3rd Edwards Symposium — New Horizons in Soft Matter, Cambridge
20186 lectures, Summer School on Soft Matter and Biophysics, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
2018Focus Session Organiser & Session Chair, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles
2017Organiser, 2nd Edwards Symposium — Challenges and Opportunities in Soft Matter, Cambridge
2016Member, core team of The Edwards Centre for Soft Matter, Cambridge University
2016Organiser, 1st Edwards Symposium — Celebrating the Pioneering Work of Sir Sam Edwards, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
2013–presentEditor of Granular Matter journal, Springer
2007Discussion Leader, Workshop on Jamming, Aspen Center for Physics
2004–2006Organiser, Working Group on Dimensional Reduction in Many-Variable Systems, EU COST Action P10