User:Kvlawler/Gavin Crooks

Gavin Crooks is an English chemist currently researching in America. He researches in the field of Statistical mechanics, and is the namesake of the Crooks fluctuation theorem.

Career
Gavin received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of East Anglia in 1992 and his M.Sc. in Biocolloid Chemistry from the same university in 1993. His masters adviser was R. H. Robinson, and his thesis was entitled "Characterization of Lipases in Water-in-Oil Microemulsions" He got his Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley under David Chandler. During this time, he worked on both equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. He did significant work on transition path sampling as well as nonequilibrium staitstical mechanics. He briefly left science to work for an internet startup doughtnet.com, but returned to science to postdoc under Steven Brenner. He is now a staff scientist and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Other
Gavin runs the definitive gadget and gear webpage for the discerning scientist