Douglas Durian

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Douglas Durian
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Cornell University
University of Chicago
Awards Fellow of the American Physical Society (2004)
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2003)
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Soft Matter
Jamming
Foams
Institutions University of Pennsylvania

University of California Los Angeles

Exxon

Douglas J. Durian is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his research contributions to the field of experimental soft matter, particularly in the areas of foams and granular flows. He has held multiple visiting professorships and leaderships positions in the soft matter physics community. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. [1]

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Academic career

Durian went to college at the University of Chicago, where he earned an A.B. in Physics and completed the coursework for a degree in Applied Mathematics in 1984. He received an M.S. in physics from Cornell in 1987, and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell in 1989 with Carl Franck. His thesis research focused on the wetting properties of binary liquid mixtures. [2] Before joining the University of California Los Angeles in 1991 as an assistant professor of physics, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Exxon Research and Engineering Company from 1989 to 1991 under the supervision of David Weitz. After becoming a full professor at UCLA, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and has been there ever since. He held multiple visiting positions including at the Universite Louis Pasteur, ESPCI Paris, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Durian was Chair of the American Physical Society Division of Soft Matter in 2019, and was a member-at-large in the APS Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics from 2005 to 2008. He served as the associate editor of Research Letter in Physics from 2007 to 2017, and has been on the editorial boards of npj Microgravity since 2014, the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment since 2017, and Papers in Physics since 2019.

Research contributions

Durian has broad interests in soft matter composed of particulates, ranging from colloids and bubbles to grains and pebbles. His early experimental work on aqueous foams, [3] as well as his models for simulating the loss of rigidity, [4] helped launch the field of jamming. In granular systems, he has developed well controlled experimental systems that allow precise study of key phenomena associated with jamming, such as dynamical heterogeneities and the thermal-like nature of grain-scale fluctuations in driven systems, [5] [6] [7] as well as the forces at play during impact, [8] and the nature of the putative clogging transition that happens for grains in a hopper when the outlet size is decreased. [9] [10] He has also developed models with regards to the coarsening of foam structure, [11] driven by diffusion of gas from small to large bubbles, where the role of bubble shape and liquid content is uncovered through a combination of ground and microgravity experiments [12] aboard the International Space Station. Durian's work leverages his advances in multiple light scattering techniques for probing the structure and dynamics of opaque materials, including new methods of higher-order correlation functions [13] and speckle-visibility spectroscopy. [14] He is also using model experimental systems and machine learning techniques to help understand the mechanical response of amorphous solids. [15]

According to his Google Scholar profile, Durian's publications have received over 11,000 citations and his h-index is 57. [16]

Awards and honors

Durian has received a significant number of awards and honors which include:

Personal life

Durian was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His father was a lifetime employee of General Motors. He is married to Andrea J. Liu.

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References

  1. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=2004 and institution=University of California, Los Angeles)
  2. ↑ Durian, Douglas J.; Franck, Carl (August 3, 1987). "Wetting phenomena of binary liquid mixtures on chemically altered substrates". Physical Review Letters. 59 (5): 555–558. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59..555D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.555. PMID   10035804.
  3. ↑ Durian, D. J. (December 25, 1995). "Foam Mechanics at the Bubble Scale". Physical Review Letters. 75 (26): 4780–4783. Bibcode:1995PhRvL..75.4780D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4780. PMID   10059995. S2CID   37129425.
  4. ↑ Durian, D. J. (December 25, 1995). "Foam Mechanics at the Bubble Scale". Physical Review Letters. 75 (26): 4780–4783. Bibcode:1995PhRvL..75.4780D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4780. PMID   10059995. S2CID   37129425.
  5. ↑ Abate, A. R.; Durian, D. J. (August 30, 2007). "Topological persistence and dynamical heterogeneities near jamming". Physical Review E. 76 (2): 021306. arXiv: 0707.4178 . Bibcode:2007PhRvE..76b1306A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021306. PMID   17930032. S2CID   2235851.
  6. ↑ Nordstrom, K. N.; Gollub, J. P.; Durian, D. J. (August 22, 2011). "Dynamical heterogeneity in soft-particle suspensions under shear". Physical Review E. 84 (2): 021403. arXiv: 1103.2357 . Bibcode:2011PhRvE..84b1403N. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.021403 . PMID   21928990.
  7. ↑ Katsuragi, H.; Abate, A. R.; Durian, D. J. (June 22, 2010). "Jamming and growth of dynamical heterogeneities versus depth for granular heap flow". Soft Matter. 6 (13): 3023–3029. arXiv: 1001.3811 . Bibcode:2010SMat....6.3023K. doi:10.1039/B918991B. ISSN   1744-6848. S2CID   97409074.
  8. ↑ Brzinski, T. A.; Mayor, P.; Durian, D. J. (October 18, 2013). "Depth-Dependent Resistance of Granular Media to Vertical Penetration". Physical Review Letters. 111 (16): 168002. arXiv: 1307.4638 . Bibcode:2013PhRvL.111p8002B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.168002. PMID   24182303. S2CID   6424321.
  9. ↑ Thomas, C. C.; Durian, D. J. (May 3, 2013). "Geometry dependence of the clogging transition in tilted hoppers". Physical Review E. 87 (5): 052201. arXiv: 1206.7052 . Bibcode:2013PhRvE..87e2201T. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.052201 . PMID   23767524.
  10. ↑ Thomas, C. C.; Durian, D. J. (April 28, 2015). "Fraction of Clogging Configurations Sampled by Granular Hopper Flow". Physical Review Letters. 114 (17): 178001. arXiv: 1410.0933 . Bibcode:2015PhRvL.114q8001T. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.178001 . PMID   25978264.
  11. ↑ Schimming, C. D.; Durian, D. J. (September 27, 2017). "Border-crossing model for the diffusive coarsening of two-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional wet foams". Physical Review E. 96 (3): 032805. arXiv: 1706.01392 . Bibcode:2017PhRvE..96c2805S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.032805 . PMID   29346872.
  12. ↑ Aumaître, S.; Behringer, R. P.; Cazaubiel, A.; Clément, E.; Crassous, J.; Durian, D. J.; Falcon, E.; Fauve, S.; Fischer, D.; Garcimartín, A.; Garrabos, Y. (July 1, 2018). "An instrument for studying granular media in low-gravity environment". Review of Scientific Instruments. 89 (7): 075103. Bibcode:2018RScI...89g5103A. doi:10.1063/1.5034061. ISSN   0034-6748. PMID   30068123. S2CID   51774802.
  13. ↑ Lemieux, P.-A.; Durian, D. J. (July 1, 1999). "Investigating non-Gaussian scattering processes by using nth -order intensity correlation functions". JOSA A. 16 (7): 1651–1664. Bibcode:1999JOSAA..16.1651L. doi:10.1364/JOSAA.16.001651. ISSN   1520-8532.
  14. ↑ Bandyopadhyay, R.; Gittings, A. S.; Suh, S. S.; Dixon, P. K.; Durian, D. J. (September 1, 2005). "Speckle-visibility spectroscopy: A tool to study time-varying dynamics". Review of Scientific Instruments. 76 (9): 093110–093110–11. arXiv: cond-mat/0506081 . Bibcode:2005RScI...76i3110B. doi:10.1063/1.2037987. ISSN   0034-6748. S2CID   5795240.
  15. ↑ Cubuk, E. D.; Schoenholz, S. S.; Rieser, J. M.; Malone, B. D.; Rottler, J.; Durian, D. J.; Kaxiras, E.; Liu, A. J. (March 9, 2015). "Identifying Structural Flow Defects in Disordered Solids Using Machine-Learning Methods". Physical Review Letters. 114 (10): 108001. arXiv: 1409.6820 . Bibcode:2015PhRvL.114j8001C. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.108001 . PMID   25815967.
  16. ↑ "Douglas J. Durian". scholar.google.com. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  17. ↑ "2003-2004". www.sigmaxi.org. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
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