CV - Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld

CV: Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld
June 2024


EDUCATION:

	1989	PhD (Summa Cum Laude) Theoretical Physics, Tel Aviv University
	1986	MSc (Summa Cum Laude) Physics, Tel Aviv University

APPOINTMENTS:

	2024	Director of Studies for Natural Sciences, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University
	2024	Research Fellow, ESE, Imperial College London (52% FTE)
	2020-2023	Research Fellow, ESE, Imperial College London (52% FTE)
	2019-	Distinguished Professor, CSU, Hunan, China
	2014-2017	Distinguished Professor, National University of Defense Technology, Hunan, China
	2013-	Editor, Granular Matter Journal, Springer
	2012-	Bye-Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
	2010-2012	Senior Visiting Fellow, Inst. of Shock Physics, Imperial College London
	2009-	College Lecturer, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
	2005-2019	Research Fellow, ESE, Imperial College London
	1997-	Long-Term visitor, Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge University
	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 (with Prof. A. R. Bishop), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1992-1993	Research Associate (with Prof. S. Torquato), Princeton University, NJ, USA
	1989-1992	Research Associate (with Prof. R. C. Ball), Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge University
	1987	Visiting Scientist (with Prof. B. B. Mandelbrot), IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

HONORS, 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
	2014-2017	Distinguished Professor, NUDT, Hunan, China
	2013-2016	Alan Howard Student Scholarship
	2011	Undergraduate Research Bursary Nuffield URB/39915
	2010-2014	EPSRC EP/H051716/1
	2010	Visiting Grant, Tsukuba University
	2009-2012	Teaching Associate, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
	2008-2011	Alan Howard Student Scholarship
	2008-2009	EOARD Grant 083046
	2008	StatoilHydro Grant
	2007-2012	Member of the Room, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
	2005-2008	EPSRC Grant GR/T28959/01
	1993-1996	Director's Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1990-1992	Leo Baeck Lodge Award
	1985, 88, 89	Weiler Foundation Scholarship Awards
	1989	Distinction Award, Tel Aviv University, Israel
	1982-1988	Scholarship Awards, Tel Aviv University, Israel


ORGANISATIONAL / PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

	2024	Session Chair, Ergodicity in Physical Systems and Beyond, Lincoln, UK, July 8 - 10
	2024	Organiser, International conference, 8th Edwards Symposium - Statistical Physics of Soft and Multicomponent Systems, Cambridge, UK, September 11 - 13
	2023	Organiser, International conference, 7th Edwards Symposium - New Paradigms in Soft Matter and Statistical Physics, Cambridge, UK, September 13 - 15
	2022	Organiser, International conference, 6th Edwards Symposium - Soft Matter for the 21st Century, Cambridge, UK, September 7 - 9
	2021	Organiser, International conference, 5th Edwards Symposium - Emerging trends in Soft Matter, Cambridge, UK, September 8 - 10
	2021	Session Chair, Statistical Physics of Complex Systems, Warwick University, UK, June 23 - 24
	2019	Organiser, International conference, 4th Edwards Symposium - Emerging trends in Soft Matter, Cambridge, UK, September 4 - 6
	2018	Organiser, International conference, 3rd Edwards Symposium - New Horizons in Soft Matter, Cambridge, UK, September 5 - 7
	2018	Session Chair, 3rd Edwards Symposium - New Horizons in Soft Matter, Camridge, UK, September 5 - 7
	2018	6 lectures in the Summer School on Soft Matter and Biophysics on stress field theory in particulate media, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, July 1 - 5
	2018	Focus Session organiser, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, USA, March 5 - 9
	2018	Session Chair, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, USA, March 5 - 9
	2017	Session Chair, From Supercooled Liquids to Glasses: Current Challenges for Amorphous Materials, Kavli Inst., Beijing, China, August 7 - 18
	2017	Organiser, International conference, 2nd Edwards Symposium - Challenges and Opportunities in Soft Matter, Cambridge, UK, September 6 - 8
	2017	Organiser, The 2nd International Granular Flow Workshop, Guiyang, China, August 21 - 24
	2017	Session Chair, The 10th International Conference on Soft Matter and Biophysics, Xiamen, China, March 25 - 28
	2016	Member, core team of The Edwards Centre for Soft Matter, Cambridge University
	2016	Session Chair and Moderator, BP-ICAM Annual Conference 2016, Manchester, UK, October 31 - November 2
	2016	Session Chair, 3rd International Conference on Packing Problems, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, August 29 - September 1
	2016	Member of the American Physical Society
	2016	Organiser, International conference, Soft Matter - Theoretical and Industrial Challenges, Celebrating the Pioneering Work of Sir Sam Edwards, Isaac Newton Inst., Cambridge, UK, September 7 - 9
	2016	Organiser, 3rd International Workshop on Soft and Granular Matter in Ambient and Extreme Conditions 2016, Changsha, Hunan, China, August 22 - 25
	2015	Member of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
	2015	Member of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Soft Matter
	2015	Member of the American Physical Society
	2015	Member of the Granular Materials Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute
	2015	Organiser, 2nd International Workshop on Soft and Granular Matter in Ambient and Extreme Conditions 2015, Changsha, Hunan, China, August 31 - September 4
	2015	Session Chair, Beijing Soft Matter Workshop, Beijing, China, 17 April
	2015	Sole organiser, Computational methods in flow dynamics and granular science, Changsha, Hunan, China, 14 April
	2014	Organiser, International Workshop on Soft and Granular Matter in Ambient and Extreme Conditions, Changsha, Hunan, China, September 15 - 18
	2013	Conference Scientific Committee member, International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Aberdeen, UK, 10-14 July
	2013	Editor of Granular Matter journal
	2011	Session Chair, 8th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Graz, Austria, July 9 - 13
	2011	Session Chair, Complexity in the Oil Industry, Inst. of Physics, Natal, Brazil, November 14 - 18
	2008	Session Chair, Granular Gases: Beyond the Dilute Limit, Thurnau, Germany, September 8 - 12
	2008	Session Chair and Discussion Leader, Structure and Packing in Gordon Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow, Waterville, Maine, US, July 22 - 26
	2007	Session Chair, Reservoir Simulation in Universities Forum on Reservoir Description and Simulation (UFORDS), Scarborough, UK, September 2 - 6
	2007	Organiser and Chairman, Workshop on Fractures, Complexity in the Oil Industry, Natal, Brazil, August 5 - 9
	2007	Discussion leader, Slow dynamics of granular materials and modelling quasi-statics in Workshop on Jamming, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen CO, USA, June 20 - August 3
	2007	Discussion leader, Stress transmission and isostaticity theory in Workshop on Jamming, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen CO, USA, June 20 - August 3
	2004-2006	Organiser and Chairman, Working Group on Dimensional Reduction in many-variable systems within the EU COST action P10 Physics of Risk
	2004	Program Committee, SPIE conference Fluctuation and Noise, FaN2004, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 25-28 May
	2003	Chair, Statics and Dynamics of Systems of Rigid Particles, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK December 10
	2003	Organising Committee, SPIE conference Fluctuation and Noise, FaN2003, Santa Fe, NM, USA, June 1 - 4
	1999-2001	Specialist Subject Reviewer, Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education, UK
	2000	Organising Committee Member, MESOMECHANICS2000, China
	1995	Organiser and Chair, Workshop on Fractal Analysis and Model ling of Materials, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1994-1996	Organiser and Chair, Working Group on Protein Dynamics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

INVITED AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES


	2025	Invited talk, IRN GEOMECH Conference on "Multi-Physics and Multiscale Couplings in Geo-environmental Mechanics", La Rochelle, France, June 16-18
	2025	Invited talk, Edwards Centre meeting, Cambridge, UK, June 17
	2024	Invited talk, IS-Grenoble 2024, "International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro", Grenoble, France, September 23-27
	2024	Invited talk, Conference on "Ergodicity in Physical Systems and Beyond", Lincoln, UK, July 8-10
	2023	Invited talk, "DKU Soft Matter Symposium: Model, Simulation and Application of Complex Fluids and Particulate Materials", DKU University, Kunshan, China, January 26-28
	2023	Invited talk, 2nd Confenerence on "Mechanical Systems Dynamics", Peking University, Beijing, China, September 1-5
	2021	Invited talk, Statistical Physics of Complex Systems", Warwick University, UK, June 23-24 (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/theory/events/spcs_robinball21/linkstorecordings/talk_from_rafi_blumenfeld.mp4)
	2020	Keynote talk, Soft Matter Symposium on "Bridging Micro-Meso-Macroscopic Scales in Particulate and Biological Systems", Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China, December 17-20
	2020	Keynote talk, Workshop on "Emerging Scales in Granular Media", Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, January 14-16
	2020	Keynote talk, Edwards Centre Mini-conference, Cambridge, UK, January 10
	2019	Invited talk, 4th International Granular Flow Workshop, Yangtze-River-Delta Physics Research Ctr., Liyang, Jiangsu, China, Sept. 15 - 17
	2019	Invited talk, 4th International Conference on Packings, Yale University, CN, USA, June 3 - 7
	2018	Invited talk, KITS / IoP / CECAM Workshop: "Entropy without the Hot Air", Beijing, China, August 5 - 7
	2018	Invited talk, The 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop for Complex Non-Equilibrium Systems, Shanghai, China, June 28 - 30
	2018	Invited talk, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, USA, March 5 - 9
	2017	Invited talk, Outlook of Soft Matter Physics and Its Applications, Beijing, China, December 16 - 17
	2017	Invited talk, The 2nd International Granular Flow Workshop, Guiyang, China, August 21 - 24
	2017	Invited talk, From supercooled liquids to glasses: Current challenges for amorphous materials, Kavli Inst. of Theoretical Science, Beijing, August 7 - 18
	2017	Opening talk, The 10th International Conference on Soft Matter and Biophysics, Xiamen, China, March 25 - 28
	2016	Packing: across length scales -, Shanghai, China, August 29 - September 1
	2016	Soft and Granular Matter in Ambient and Extreme Conditions 2016 -, Changsha, China, August 22 - 25 (two talks)
	2016	APS March meeting -, Baltimore, MD, USA, March 14 - 18
	2016	Dynamic Days XXXV -, Durham, NC, USA, January 7 - 10 (Closing talk)
	2015	Soft and Granular Matter in Ambient and Extreme Conditions 2015 -, Changsha, China, 31 August - 4 September (two talks)
	2015	KITPC Workshop on: Controlled structural formation of soft matter -, Beijing, China, August 3 - 21
	2015	The Annual Meeting of Thermodynamic and Statistical Mechanics Education and Research Association of China 2015 -, Hunan, China, 12-15 July (three talks)
	2015	EMI 2015 Conference -, Stanford, USA, 16-19 June (two talks)
	2015	Soft Matter workshop -, Beijing, China, 17 April
	2014	Avalanches in Functional Materials and Geophysics -, Cambridge, UK, 4-8 December
	2014	Soft and Granular Matter in Ambient and Extreme Conditions -, Changsha, China, 15-18 September
	2014	Dynamic Systems: From Statistical Mechanics to Engineering Applications -, Zurich, Switzerland, 9-10 January
	2014	International Winter School and Symposium on Statistical Mechanics and Simulation of Nonlinear Dynamics -, Changsha, China, 3-7 Jan (A six-lecture series)
	2013	Powders and Grains 2013 - Sydney, Australia, 7-12 July
	2012	ESMC-12 8th European Solid Mechanics Conference - Graz, Edinburgh, 9-13 July
	2012	Workshop on Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Affiliates Meeting - Imperial College London, 11 June
	2011	Workshop on Isoperimetric problems, space-filling, and soap bubble geometry - ICMS, Edinburgh, 19-23 March
	2011	Workshop on Complexity in the Oil Industry - Inst. of Physics, Natal, Brazil, 14-18 November
	2011	Workshop on Fluctuations and Response in Active Materials: From Driven Granular Systems to Swarming Bacteria - Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 20-24 June
	2011	Consortium meeting on Pore-Scale Modelling - Imperial College London, London, UK 11 January
	2010	Gordon Conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media - Lewiston, ME, USA 11-16 July
	2010	Gordon Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow - Waterville, ME, USA 20-25 June
	2010	Mini-symposium on Fractured Reservoirs - Delft, Netherlands 10 June
	2010	PERM Affiliates meeting on Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics - Imperial College London, UK 7 June
	2010	Workshop on Particulate Matter: Does Dimensionality Matter? - Dresden, Germany 30 May - 4 June
	2010	Workshop on Granular Materials - Tsukuba, Japan 3-4 March
	2009	IUTAM-ISIMM Symposium on Mathematical Modeling and Physical Instances of Granular Flows - Reggio Calabria, Italy, 14-18 September
	2009	Workshop on Statistical Mechanics of Static Granular Media - Lorentz Centre, Leiden, The Nederlands, 6-10 July (Plenary Speaker)
	2009	Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Affiliates Meeting on Pore-scale modelling, London, UK, 22 June
	2008	Workshop on Flow in Porous Media - I, Brasilia, Brazil, 18-24 Oct
	2008	Workshop on Flow in Porous Media - II, Brasilia, Brazil, 18-24 Oct
	2008	Conference on Granular Gases: Beyond the Dilute Limit, Thurnau, Germany, 7-12 Sept
	2008	Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics (PERM) Affiliates Meeting on Pore-scale modelling, London, UK, 16 June
	2008	The BPI-Cavendish workshop, Cambridge, UK, 10 June
	2008	IOP Meeting on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2008, London, UK, 26-28 March
	2008	Air Force Office for Scientific Research and Air Force Research Lab Meeting on Particulate Mechanics in Extreme Environments, Eglin Florida, USA, 29-31 January
	2007	Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy on The Interface Between Atomistic and Continuum Theories, Houston, TX, 26-28 October
	2007	Universities Forum on Reservoir Description and Simulation (UFORDS) - I, Scarborough, UK, 2-6 September
	2007	Universities Forum on Reservoir Description and Simulation (UFORDS) - II, Scarborough, UK, 2-6 September
	2007	Conference on Complexity in the Oil Industry - I, Natal, Brazil, 5-9 August
	2007	Conference on Complexity in the Oil Industry - II, Natal, Brazil, 5-9 August
	2007	StatPhys Satellite meeting Statics and Dynamics of Granular Media and Colloidal Suspensions, Naples, Italy
	2007	Petroleum Engineering and Rock mechanics (PERM) Affiliates Meeting, Imperial College London
	2007	USAF Workshop Particulate Mechanics in Extreme Environments, University of Florida, FL, US, January 23-25
	2006	20th Canberra International Physics Summer School Granular Matter, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December
	2005	Summer School Econophysics and complexity, Academy of Economics Studies, Bucharest, Romania
	2004	Summer School Econophysics and complexity, Academy of Economics Studies, Bucharest, Romania
	2004	IMA Workshop Modeling of Soft Matter, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, US
	2004	IChemE meeting Behaviour of Structured Granular Materials Across Length Scales, Leeds, UK
	2003	Program Meeting, Physics of Risk, Nyborg, Denmark
	2003	Workshop Flow Regimes, Transitions and Segregation in Granular and Particle-laden Flows, Cambridge, UK
	2001	International conference on geometry, nonlinearity, and integrability in condensed matter and soft condensed matter physics, Bansko, Bulgaria
	1998	The Polymer Consortium Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK
	1997	77th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, USA
	1997	Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena in Transforming Solids, Penn State University, USA
	1996	Workshop on Fracture, Friction and Deformation, Los Alamos national Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1996	Workshop on Nonequilibrium Phase Transformations, Santa Fe, NM, USA
	1995	FRACTALS 95, Marseilles, France
	1996	MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA
	1994	Gordon conference on Fractals, San Miniato, Italy
	1994	Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems (NEEDS94), Los Alamos, NM, USA
	1994	MRS General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA
	1993	Fractals in Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
	1992	Forum in Compaction Forming Operations, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
	1994	NATO ASI Summer school Propagation of Correlations in Constrained Systems -, Institute d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica, France (two talks)


INVITED COLLOQUIA / DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS

	2021	Exact solution of the random close packing problem in two dimensions, Physics, Tel Aviv University
	2021	Granular matter self-organises by entropy-stability competition into non-equilibrium detailed balance states, J. Granular Matter monthly Webinar
	2021	Self-organisation of dense granular systems: theory, entropy, and non-equilibrium detailed balance, Inst. of Natural Sciences and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
	2021	Introduction to statistical mechanics of granular media, Engineering Dept., Tsukuba University, Japan
	2016	Statistical mechanics of granular systems, Engineering Dept., Peking University, Beijing, China
	2016	Towards a stress theory of real granular materials, Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, China
	2016	Progress in statistical mechanics of a-thermal particulate systems, Yukawa Inst., Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
	2016	Bending back and rich behaviour of stress chains in isostatic annuli, Engineering Dept, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
	2016	Progress on granular statistical mechanics, Engineering Dept, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
	2015	Towards a stress theory for real granular materials, Physics, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
	2015	Towards a fundamental stress theory for real granular materials, Engineering, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
	2015	A local morphological descriptor of granular materials and its uses, Engineering, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
	2014	Fracture propagation in geo-materials – The single fracture dynamics, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
	2014	Structural characterisation and statistical mechanics of granular and porous systems: A systematic method to derive structure-property relation and equations of state, Inst. of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
	2014	Towards a fundamental stress theory for real granular materials, Center of soft matter physics and its applications, Beihang University, Beijing, China
	2013	The science of granular matter, Dept. of physics, University of Cambridge, UK
	2013	Structural characterisation and statistical mechanics of granular matter, Dept. of chemical and environmental engineering, University of Nottingham, UK
	2012	From statistical mechanics of granular, cellular and porous materials to structure-property relations - a systematic approach, Dept. of Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
	2012	Statistical mechanics of granular, cellular and porous media and structure-property relations – a systematic approach, Dept. of Mathematics, Open University, UK
	2011	Controlled force mediation in the cytoskeleton: A dream model awaiting experimental verification, Institut fur Experimentelle Physik, Universitat Ulm, Ulm, Germany
	2010	Da Vinci Fluid - a minimal model for flow of dense granular materials, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2010	From pore-scale structural characterisation to macro-scale structure-property predictions, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2010	Da Vinci Fluid model for flow of dense granular materials, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
	2010	Understanding stress transmission in dense granular materials, Engineering Dept, Tokyo University, Japan
	2010	Lecture course: 1. Stress transmission in granular packs - why do conventional theories struggle? 2. Stress transmission in granular packs - isostaticity theory and beyond; 3. Entropic formalism for the statistics of granular packs; 4. Stresses and force chains in granular materials: misconceptions and new directions, Engineering Dept, Kyoto University, Japan
	2009	Stress transmission and incipient yield flow in dense granular materials, Civil Engineering Dept, Sydney University, Australia
	2009	Systematic derivation of structure-property relations in porous and cellular materials, Civil Engineering Dept, Sydney University, Australia
	2008	Stresses in Granular Systems: A paradigm of Complexity, Mathematics Dept, Brunel University, UK
	2008	Stresses in granular systems, ICP, Stuttgart University, Germany
	2008	The Rich Dynamics of Process Zone Limited Fracture Propagation in Heterogeneous Materials, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
	2008	Stresses in granular systems and yield flow, DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK
	2008	Applied Modelling and Computation Group (AMCG), Imperial College London, UK
	2008	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2008	School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
	2007	Physics Department, North Carolina State University, NC, USA
	2007	Physics Department, Duke University, NC, USA
	2006	Physics Department, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2006	Biology Department, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
	2006	Physics Department, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
	2006	Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
	2004	Department of Applied Mathematics, Bristol University, UK
	2004	Institute for Physics of Geological Processes, Oslo, Norway
	2004	Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
	2003	Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
	2003	Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
	2002	Engineering Department, Kings College, London, UK
	2001	Physics Department, Leeds University, Leeds, UK
	2000	Max Planck Institute, Golm, Germany
	1997	Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
	1996	Physics Department, Wake Forest University, NC, USA
	1996	Physics Department, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA
	1995	Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA
	1996	Physics Department, University of Texas El Paso, TX, USA
	1996	Physics Department, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM, USA
	1994	Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
	1994	Physics Department, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
	1993	Physics Department, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
	1992	Physics Department, Birmingham University, UK


GRADUATE STUDENTS

Years	Name and Dissertation or Research Title	Degree	Place of Employment
2023	Demosthenes Georgiou: "A search for the densest random packing of the bi-disperse disks in d=2: a numerical investigation"	MSci project
2022	Alex D.C. Myhill: "Structural dynamics of 2D superfluid granular systems"	MSci project	PhD student, University of Cambridge
2020	James M. Bird: "Statistical mechanics of social situations: optimising high table conversations"	MSci project	Analyst, Devon Equity Management Ltd.
2020	Sulaimaan Lim: "A theoretical model for E.Coli survival strategy in the gut"	MSci project	PhD student, Imperial College London
2019	Daniel Owens: "Statistics of stress distribution in loosely aggregated asteroids "	MSci project
2019	Jens Havgaard Nyhegn: "Stress spirals and focusing in isostatic granular discs"	MSci project
2018	Clara Wanjura: "The structural evolution of granular matter"	MSc	PhD student, University of Cambridge
2018	Yuliang Wang: "Strain-driven hardening of fibrous networks"	MSci project
2018	Daniel L. Duffy: "Relating proximity to the jamming critical point and isostatic regions in particulate media"	MSci project	PhD student, University of Cambridge
2017	Clara Wanjura: "Structural evolution in quasi-static flow of dense granular systems"	ERASMUS Masters	PhD student, University of Cambridge
2017	David King: "Statistical Mechanics for Dynamics of Slow and Dense Particulate Media"	PhD	PhD student, University of Cambridge
2017	Do V. A. Nguyen: "Understanding plastic deformation in particulate systems"	Summer Project	Finance sector, Dublin
2017	Liu Ping: "Active objects in granular materials"	PhD	University Lecturer, China
2016	David A. King: "Toward an effective medium stress theory of stato-elastic media"	MSci project	PhD student, University of Cambridge
2016	Nikoletta Prastiti: "Fractures in weakly consolidated media - stress and the process zone"	MSc
2015	Zheng-Yu Yong: "Structural evolution of granular materials"	MSc
2015	David A. King: "Derivation of Equations and Solutions for the Stresses in a Layered Elastic-Isostatic Medium"	Summer Project	PhD student, University of Cambridge
2014	Ling Huang (Walter): "Dynamics and effects of penetrators into granular materials"	MSc	Officer, Republic of China Army
2014	Louis Bortolozzo: "Development of a continuous stress field theory for 3D isostatic systems"	MSci project
2013	Shahar Amitai: "Predictive model for the design of porous media with application to fuel cells"	PhD	Developer at Google, UK
2013	Alan Bowman: "Ribbon dynamics in 3D"	MSci project
2013	Reuven Shirazi: "The Calderon problem in random resistor etworks"	MSci project
2013	Marise Westbroek: "Dynamics of director fields in 2D"	MSci project
2012	Andrew Gibbons: "Development of a systematic method to describe shapes of 3D objects"	MSci project
2012	Giovanni Camisasca: "Loop forces and mechanical equilibrium of 2D granular structures"	MSci project
2012	Christopher Revel: "Stem cell sorting in mammalian embryos as a self-organising physical process"	PhD	Research Fellow, Manchester University
2011	Christopher Revell: "Shear flow of da Vinci Fluids"	MSci project
2011	Julian Ma: "Stress transmission in disc-like granular systems"	MSci project
2011	Harrison Steggles: "Dynamics of planar fractures in disordered media"	MSci project
2011	Yipei Guo: "Oscillatory shear flow of da Vinci Fluids"	MSci project
2011	William Handley: "Stress equations in isostatic and granular systems: hyperbolic or elliptic?"	Summer project)	Research Fellow, Universioty of Cambridge
2010	Simon Nathan: "Couette Flow of a da Vinci Fluid"	MSci project
2010	Harry R. Kennard: "The famous packing problem – ellipses"	MSci project
2010	Finn Grimwood: "Gravitational Flow of a DaVinci Fluid"	MSci project
2010	Joseph Jordan: "Computing entropy and ordering of granular materials: From description to prediction"	PhD
2010	Imbert Wang: "Coarse-graining the fabric tensor of the Isostaticity stress field equations"	Summer Project)
2010	Zilvinas Rimas: "Characterisation of force chain networks"	Summer Project)
2010	Chris Revell: "Characterisation of packing of ellipses"	Summer Project)	Research Felloow, Manchester University
2009	Rebecca Hihinashvili: "Morphological characterisation of porous materials for fuel cell technology"	PhD
2009	Lauri Toikka: "The famous particle packing problem"	MSci project	PDRA, University of Innsbruck
2008	Anna Timoshina: "Statistics of force chain networks in granular systems - skeletonisation"	MSci project
2008	Joe Jordan: "Statistics of force chain networks in granular systems"	MSci project
2008	Hannah Davies: "Shaken not Stirred: conductivity of shaken graphite particles" (with W. Proud)	MSci project
2008	Phil Tooke: "Structural analysis of deposited particles in two dimensions"	MSci project
2007	Michael Peyton-Jones: "Quantitative analysis of contact forces in a two-dimensional poly-distributed particle bed using photoelastic methods" (with W. Proud)	Summer student
2007	Ian Hewett: "A study of gas permeation through granular beds" (with W. Proud)	MSci project
2007	Arutchelvi Harichandran: "Distribution of heights on top of a granular pack"	MSc project
1994-5	Rudolph Held: "Characterisation of, and flow in, porous media"	MSc summer student	Group Leader, HydroStatoil, Trondheim, Norway
1995	Yi Jiang: 1. "Growth of planar Laplacian surfaces" 2. "Parameter flow in coarse-graining of disordered systems"	PhD Summer student	Staff member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA


PUBLICATIONS (see also Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d9jE_J4AAAAJ&hl=en)

2025	Raphael Blumenfeld, Takashi Matsushima, Jie Zhang, Self-organization, detailed balance, and stress-structure correlations in 2D granular dynamics, EPJ Web Conf. , to appear, https://arxiv.org/abs/xxxx
2025	Takashi Matsushima, Zhipeng Yu, Dominik Krengel, Raphael Blumenfeld, Cell Structure of 2D Cohesive Granular Solid, EPJ Web Conf., to appear, https://arxiv.org/abs/xxxx
2025	Dominik Krengel, Haoran Jiang, Takashi Matsushima, Raphael Blumenfeld, Effects of particle angularity on granular self-organization, Phys. Rev. E, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/xxxx
2024	Clara C. Wanjura, Amelie Maylander, Othmar Marti, Raphael Blumenfeld, Detailed balance in non-equilibrium dynamics of granular matter: derivation and implications, Journal X, preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05059
2024	Chenyang Huang, Yang Yu, Peter R. King, Bin Cheng, Raphael Blumenfeld, Structure-dependent fragmentation risk of rubble-pile asteroids on low-impacts, Mon. Not. Roy. Astr. Soc., XX, under review, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16723
2025	Xiaoyu Jiang, Raphael Blumenfeld, Takashi Matsushima, Coordinated Stress-Structure Self-Organization in Granular Packing, Phys. Rev. E, 111, 045406; https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045406
2024	Raphael Blumenfeld, Granular solids transmit stress as two-phase composites, Phys. Rev. E, 109, 014901; https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10581
2023	Paula A. Gago, Marcos A. Madrid, Stefan Boettcher, Raphael Blumenfeld, Peter King, Effect of bevelled silo outlet in the flow rate during discharge, Powder Technology, 428, 118842; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2023.118842
2023	Alex D. C. Myhill, Raphael Blumenfeld, Steady states of two-dimensional granular systems are unique, stable, and sometimes satisfy detailed balance, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 56, 345001, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8121/ace56d, https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10526
2022	Ayaka Yanagida, Elena Corujo-Simon, ChristopherK. Revell, Preeti Sahu, Giuliano G. Stirparo, Irene M. Aspalter, Alex K. Winkel, Ruby Peters, Henry De Belly, Davide A.D. Cassani, Sarra Achouri, Raphael Blumenfeld, Kristian Franze, Edouard Hannezo, Ewa K. Paluch, Jennifer Nichols, Kevin J. Chalut, Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting, Cell, 185, 777; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.022
2022	Xiaoling Wang, Raphael Blumenfeld, Xi-QiaoFeng, David A.Weitz, Phase transitions in bacteria - From structural transitions in free living bacteria to phenotypic transitions in bacteria within biofilms, Physics of Life Reviews, 43, 98, DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2022.09.004
2022	R. Blumenfeld, Comment on "Explicit analytical solution for random close packing in d=2 and d=3", PRL 128, 028002, https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10550
2021	R. Blumenfeld, Sub-anomalous diffusion and unusual velocity distribution evolution in cooling granular gases: theory, submitted; https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06260
2021	R. Blumenfeld, Erratum: Disorder Criterion and Explicit Solution for the Disc Random Packing Problem, Phys. Rev. Lett, 127, 259901
2021	R. Blumenfeld, Disorder Criterion and Explicit Solution for the Disc Random Packing Problem, Phys. Rev. Lett, 127, 118002; http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11774
2021	X. Sun, Yinqiao Wang, Yujie Wang, R. Blumenfeld, J. Zhang, Experimental evidence of detailed balance in granular systems, Journal, XX, submitted; https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01355
2021	J. He, R. Blumenfeld, H. Zhu, Mechanical Behaviors of Sandy Sediments Bearing Pore-Filling Methane Hydrate under Different Intermediate Principal Stress, Int. J. Geomech. 21, 04021043; DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001965.
2021	P. Liu, X. Ran, Q. Cheng, W. Tang, J. Zhou, R. Blumenfeld, Locomotion of Self-Excited Vibrating and Rotating Objects in Granular Environments, MDPI Applied Science 11, 2054; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11052054
2021	T. Matsushima, R. Blumenfeld, Statistical properties of cell stresses in 2D granular solids, EPJ Web Conf., 249, 02006
2021	X. Jiang, T. Matsushima, R. Blumenfeld, Structural characteristics of ordered clusters in packs of ellipses, EPJ Web Conf., 249, 06004
2020	X. Sun, W. Kob, R. Blumenfeld, H. Tong, Y. Wang, J. Zhang, Friction-controlled entropy-stability competition in granular systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., 125, 268005: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.268005
2020	P. Liu, X. Ran, R. Blumenfeld, Sink-rise dynamics of horizontally oscillating active matter in granular media: Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett,, submitted
2020	A. Yanagida, C. Revell, G. Stirparo, S. Achouri, D. Cassani, R. Blumenfeld, K. Franze, E. Paluch, J. Nichols, K. Chalut, FGF-mediated cell surface fluctuations drive early embryonic lineage segregation, Phys. bioRxiv: http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.16.250084
2019	Y-J. Feng, R. Blumenfeld and C. Liu, Support of Modified Archimedes' Law Theory in Granular Media, Soft Matter 15, 3008; DOI: 10.1039/C8SM02480D.
2019	C. Revell, R. Blumenfeld and K. J. Chalut, Force-based three-dimensional model predicts mechanical drivers of cell sorting, Biological Physics, Proc. Roy. Soc. B: Biological Sciences.
2018	M. Schwartz and R. Blumenfeld, Stress Tensor for Dense Granular Flow in Plug-Free Regions, Phys. Rev. E 98, 042905; (also http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01708)
2018	C. M. Verstreken, K. J. Chalut and R. Blumenfeld, Equally probable positive and negative Poisson's ratios in disordered planar systems, Soft Matter 14, 6554. DOI: 10.1039/C8SM00717A.
2018	W. Kang, Y. Feng, C. Liu and R. Blumenfeld, Archimedes' law explains penetration of solids into granular media, Nature Comm. 9, 1101. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03344-3.
2018	Cheng Qi, Ran Xian-Wen, Liu Ping, Tang Wen-Hui and R. Blumenfeld, Numerical simulation of a spinning sphere moving in granular matter, Acta Physica Sinica 67, 014702. DOI: 10.7498/aps.66.014702.
2017	S. Amitai, A. Bertei and R. Blumenfeld, Theory-based design of sintered granular composites triples three-phase boundary in fuel cells, Phys. Rev. E 96, 052903; (also http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1706.05974)
2017	S. Amitai and R. Blumenfeld, Affine and topological structural entropies in granular statistical mechanics: explicit calculations and equation of state, Phys. Rev. E 95, 052905; (also http://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.05860.pdf)
2017	R. Blumenfeld, S. Amitai, J.F. Jordan and R. Hihinashvili, Reply to comment on "On the failure of the volume function in granular statistical mechanics and an alternative formulation", Phys. Rev. Lett., 119, 039802
2017	T. Matsushima and R. Blumenfeld, Fundamental structural characteristics of planar granular assemblies: self-organisation and scaling away friction and initial state, Phys. Rev. E 95, 032905 (2017); (also http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.2988.pdf)
2017	R. Blumenfeld and J. Ma, Bending back stress chains and unique behaviour of granular matter in cylindrical geometries, J. Gran. Matt. 19:29; (also http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06484v1.pdf)
2017	R. Blumenfeld, M.E. Cates, and M. Warner, Report on International workshop: Soft Matter - Theoretical and Industrial Challenges, celebrating the pioneering work of Sir Sam Edwards, Appl. Rheology 27, 46
2017	S. Amitai and R. Blumenfeld, Modifying continuous-time random walks to model finite-size particle diffusion in granular porous media, J. Gran. Matt. 19, 1-9; (also http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.03998v2.pdf)
2016	R. Blumenfeld, Statistical mechanics of dense granular fluids - contacts as quasi-particles, submitted, Phys. Rev. Lett.; (also http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02015)
2016	L. Huang, X. Ran and R. Blumenfeld, Vertical dynamics of a horizontally-oscillating active object in a 2D granular medium, Phys. Rev. E 94, 062906; (also http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01457)
2016	R. Blumenfeld, S. Amitai, J.F. Jordan and R. Hihinashvili, On the failure of the volume function in granular statistical mechanics and an alternative formulation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 148001; (also http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.03779v2.pdf)
2015	R. Blumenfeld, Obituary: Professor Sir Sam F. Edwards FLSW FRS FIMA (1928–2015), Mathematics TODAY, August Issue
2014	R. Blumenfeld, Structural evolution of granular systems: Theory, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6933v1.pdf
2014	M. Schwartz and R. Blumenfeld, Flow equations for dense granular fluids: New insight from a first-principles derivation, submitted, Phys. Rev. Lett.
2014	T. Matsushima and R. Blumenfeld, On universal structural characteristics of granular packs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098003; (also http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.6093.pdf)
2014	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, Granular statistical mechanics - a personal perspective, Euro. Phys. J. 223, 2189-2204 (DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2014-02258-y)
2013	T. Matsushima and R. Blumenfeld, Microstructural characteristics of planar granular solids, Powders and Grains 2013, 1186-1189, doi: 10.1063/1.4812149
2013	R. Blumenfeld, G. F. Grimwood, M. Schwartz, and Sam F. Edwards, Da Vinci Fluid as a model for dense granular flow, Granular Matter, submitted
2013	R. Blumenfeld, J. F. Jordan and S. F. Edwards, Granular statistical mechanics: volume-stress phase space, equipartition and equations of state, Powders and Grains 2013, 325-328, doi: 10.1063/1.4811933
2013^*	R. Blumenfeld, S. F. Edwards and S. M. Walley, Granular systems, in The Oxford Handbook of Soft Condensed Matter, pp 167, Eds. E. Terentjev and D. Weitz (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2013)
2012	R. Blumenfeld, J. F. Jordan and S. F. Edwards, Inter-dependence of the volume and stress ensembles and equipartition in statistical mechanics of granular systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238001 (2012); (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2977.pdf)
2012	R. Hihinashvili and R. Blumenfeld, Structural-entropic characteristics of dense planar granular systems, Granular Matter 14, 277-282 (2012); DOI: 10.1007/s10035-012-0332-5
2012	R. Blumenfeld and Sam F. Edwards, Theory of strains in auxetic materials, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 25, 565 (2012); DOI: 10.1007/s10948-012-1464-x; cond-mat/1111.6684
2011	M. Schwartz and R. Blumenfeld, Plug flow formation and growth in da Vinci Fluids, Granular Matter 13, 241-245 (2011)
2010	R. Blumenfeld, Sam F. Edwards and M. Schwartz, Da Vinci Fluids, catch-up dynamics and dense granular flow, European J. Phys. E 32, 333-338 (2010)
2009	G. Frenkel, R. Blumenfeld, P. King, M. Blunt, Topological Analysis of Foams and Tetrahedral Structures, Adv. Eng. Mat. 11, 169-176 (2009)
2009	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, On granular stress statistics: compactivity, angoricity and some open issues, J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 3981-3987 (2009)
2008	M. Gerritsen, G. Kreiss, R. Blumenfeld, Stress chain solutions in two-dimensional isostatic granular systems: fabric-dependent paths, leakage and branching, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 098001 (2008)
2008	M. Gerritsen, G. Kreiss, R. Blumenfeld, Analysis of stresses in two-dimensional isostatic granular systems, Physica A 387, 6263-6276 (2008)
2008	G. Frenkel, R. Blumenfeld, Z. Grof, P. R. King, The structure and statistics of 2D granular systems, Phys. Rev. E. 77, 041304 (2008)
2007^*	G. Frenkel, R. Blumenfeld, P. R. King and M. Blunt, Topological Analysis of Foams and Tetrahedral Structures, in Proceedings of MetFoam 2007 - Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams, Montreal, Canada
2007^*	R. Blumenfeld, On entropic characterization of granular materials, in Lecture Notes in Complex Systems Vol. 8: Granular and Complex Materials, pp 43-53, eds. T. Aste, A. Tordesillas and T. D. Matteo (World Scientific 2007), Singapore)
2007^*	S. F. Edwards and R. Blumenfeld, Thermodynamics of granular materials, in Physics of Granular Materials, ed. A. Mehta (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007)
2007	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, Blumenfeld and Edwards Reply to Comment on "Granular Entropy: Explicit Calculations for Planar Assemblies", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 089402 (2007)
2007	R. Blumenfeld, Stresses in two-dimensional isostatic granular systems: Exact solutions, New Journal of Physics 9, 160 (2007)
2006	R. Blumenfeld, Isostaticity and action at a distance in the cytoskeleton - A model awaiting experimental evidence, Biophysical Journal 91, 1970 (2006)
2006	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, Geometric partition functions of cellular systems: Explicit calculation of the entropy in two and three dimensions, EuroPhys. J. E 19, 23 (2006)
2006	R. Blumenfeld, Auxetic strains - insight from iso-auxetic materials, Molecular Simulations 31, 867 (2005)
2006^*	R. Blumenfeld and P. King, Entropy-mediated structure-permeability relations in skeletal porous materials, in Proceedings of CMWR XVI 2006 - Computational Methods in Water Resources XVI International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005	R. Blumenfeld, S. F. Edwards and R. C. Ball, Granular matter and the marginal rigidity state, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 17, S2481 (2005)
2005^*	R. Blumenfeld, Stress transmission and isostatic states of non-rigid particulate systems, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 141: Modeling of Soft Matter, eds. M-.C.T. Calderer and E. M. Terentjev, (Springer-Verlag, New York 2005); (Also: arXiv:cond-mat/0501700 [cond-mat.soft])
2004	R. Blumenfeld, Stresses in isostatic granular systems and emergence of force chains, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 118301 (2004)
2004	R. Blumenfeld, Stress in planar cellular solids: Coarse-graining the constitutive equation, Physica A 336, 361 (2004)
2003	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, From Plasticity to a renormalisation group, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 361 , 731 (2003)
2003	T. J. Sluckin, A. J. Bray, T. McLeish, R. Blumenfeld, E. J. Hinch, R. Magerle, R. C. Ball, Coarsening dynamics of phase-separating systems - discussion, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 361 , 791 (2003);
2003	R. Blumenfeld and S. F. Edwards, Granular entropy: Explicit calculations for planar assemblies, Phys.Rev. Lett. 90, 114303 (2003)
2003	R. Blumenfeld, Stress transmission in planar disordered solid foams, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, 2399-2411 (2003)
2002	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, The stress field in granular systems: Loop forces and potential formulation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115505 (2002)
2002	R. Blumenfeld, Dynamics of twists on antiferromagnetic spin chains: Theory, Eur. Phys. J. B 29, 261 (2002)
2001	R. Blumenfeld, Strange dynamics of domain walls and periodic stripes on antiferromagnetic chains, cond-mat/0108470 (2001)
2000	R. Blumenfeld and R. Balakrishnan, Exact multi-twist solutions for the Belavin-Polyakov equation and application to magnetic systems, J. Phys. A 33, 2459 (2000)
2000	R. Blumenfeld, Pulling a chain's leg: The pullout dynamics of entangled chains, Macromolecules 32, 1082 (2000)
1999	R. Blumenfeld, Hierarchical structure of domain walls in magnetic layers, Phase Transitions 69, 237 (1999)
1998	R. Blumenfeld, Dynamics of fracture propagation in the mesoscale: Theory, Theor. And Appl. Frac. Mech. 30, 209 (1998)
1998^*	R. Blumenfeld, Dynamics of fracture propagation in the mesoscale: Theory, in Proceedings of MESOMECHANICS98, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008)
1997	R. Balakrishnan and R. Blumenfeld, On the twist excitations in a classical anisotropic antiferromagnetic chain, Phys. Lett. A 237, 69 (1997)
1997	A.E. Garcia, R. Blumenfeld, G. Hummer and J. A. Krumhansl, Multi-Basin Dynamics of a Protein in a Crystal Environment, Physica D 107, 225, (1997)
1997	R. Balakrishnan and R. Blumenfeld, Transformation of general curve evolution to a modified Belavin-Polyakov equation, J. Math. Phys. 38, 5878 (1997)
1997	R. Blumenfeld and Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Mass fractal lacunarity, L\'evy dusts, Mittag-Leffler statistics, and perceived dimension, Phys. Rev. E 56, 112 (1997)
1997	R. Blumenfeld, Planar curve representation of many-body systems and dynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1203 (1997)
1997	B. L. Holian, R. Blumenfeld and P. Gumbsch, An Einstein model of brittle crack propagation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 78 (1997)
1996	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Strongly nonlinear composite dielectrics: a method for exact solution for the potential field and effective bulk properties - Addition, Phys. Rev. B 54, 9555 (1996)
1996	R. Blumenfeld, Nonequilibrium brittle fracture propagation: Steady state, oscillations and intermittency, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3703 (1996)
1996^*	A. E. Garcia, R. Blumenfeld, G. Hummer and J. Sobehart, Diffusion of a protein in configuration space, in Proceedings of The 9th Conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Eds. R.H. Sarma and M.H. Sarma (Adenine Press, Schenectady, NY 1996)
1996^*	S. Zhou, R. Blumenfeld, B. Holian and P. S. Lomdahl, Study of fiber composite failure criterion, in MRS Proceedings V409 Fracture-instability dynamics, scaling, and ductile/brittle behavior, Eds. R. L. Blumberg Selinger et al., (1996)
1995	R. Blumenfeld, Pattern formation in Laplacian growth: Theory, Center for Nonlinear Studies Newsletter 112, April (1995)
1995	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Two dimensional Laplacian growth as a system of creating and annihilating particles, Phys. Rev. E, Phys. Rev. E 51, 3434 (1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld and Robin C. Ball, Characterization of fractal and hierarchical morphologies beyond the fractal dimension, in Proceedings of the MRS General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld, A theory for the morphology of Laplacian growths from statistics of equivalent many-body systems, in Fractal Reviews in the Natural and Applied Sciences, Ed. M. M. Novak (Chapman-Hill, 1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld, A morphological theory for Laplacian nonlinear growth processes via statistics of equivalent many-body systems, in Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems (NEEDS94), Eds. V.G. Makhankov, A.R. Bishop, and D.D. Holm (World Scientific, 1995)
1995^*	R. Blumenfeld, Towards a theory of growing surfaces: Mapping Laplacian growth onto Hamiltonian dynamics and statistics, in Fluctuations and Order: The New Synthesis, Ed. M. M. Millonas (Springer-Verlag, 1995)
1994	R. Blumenfeld, Formulating a first-principles statistical theory of growing surfaces in two-dimensional Laplacian fields, Phys. Rev. E 50, 2952 (1994)
1994	V. Milman, N. A. Stelmashenko and R. Blumenfeld, Fracture surfaces: A critical review and a morphological analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy measurements, Prog. Mater. Sci. 38, 425-474 (1994)
1994	R. Blumenfeld, Two dimensional Laplacian growth can be mapped onto Hamiltonian dynamics, Phys. Lett. A 186, 317-322 (1994)
1994^*	R. Blumenfeld, A theory for growing interfaces in Laplacian fields: a many-body formulation and statistical analysis, in Proceedings of the MRS General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (1994)
1993	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Quantifying morphology of scale-invariant structures beyond the fractal dimension, Fractals 1, 985-991 (1993)
1993	R. Blumenfeld and S. Torquato, A coarse-graining procedure to generate and analyze heterogeneous materials: Theory, Phys. Rev. E 48, 4492-4500 (1993)
1993	V. Milman, R. Blumenfeld, N. A. Stelmashenko and R. C. Ball, Experimental measurements of the roughness of brittle cracks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 204 (1993)
1993	R. Blumenfeld, Explicitly exact solutions for waves in a family of nonlinear media, Physica D 66, 7-13 (1993)
1993	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, A probe for morphology and hierarchical correlations in scale invariant structures, Phys. Rev. E 47, 2298-2302 (1993)
1993	J. Adler, A. Aharony, R. Blumenfeld, A. B. Harris and Y. Meir, The distribution of the logarithms of currents in percolating resistor networks, II. Series expansion, Phys. Rev. B 47, 5770-5782 (1993)
1993	A. Aharony, R. Blumenfeld and A. B. Harris, The distribution of the logarithms of currents in percolating resistor networks, I. Theory, Phys. Rev. B 47, 5756-5769 (1993)
1993	C. Bowen, D. L. Hunter, R. Blumenfeld and N. Jan, Magnetism and high Tc superconductors, J. Physique I France 3, 83-92 (1993)
1992	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Universal scaling of the stress field at the vicinity of a wedge crack in two dimensions and oscillatory self-similar corrections to scaling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2254 (1992)
1992	E. Duering, R. Blumenfeld, D. J. Bergman, A. Aharony and M. Murat, Current distributions in a two-dimensional random-resistor-network, J. Stat. Phys. 67, 113-121 (1992)
1992	R. Blumenfeld, An exact solution for electromagnetic waves in strongly nonlinear media, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 25, L275-L282 (1992)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Onset of scaling behaviour in 2D slow cracking, Modern Phys. Lett. B 5, 1567-1573 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Strongly nonlinear composite dielectrics: a method for exact solution for the potential field and effective bulk properties, Phys. Rev. B 44, 7378-7386 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Onset of scale-invariant pattern in growth processes: The cracking problem, Physica A 177, 407-415 (1991)
1991	R. C. Ball, P. W. H. Barker and R. Blumenfeld, Sidebranch selection in fractal growth, EuroPhys. Lett. 16, 47-52 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld, The functional form of the $T_c(x)$ line in the phase diagram of high temperature superconductors, Physica C 178, 119-124 (1991)
1991	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Exact results on exponential screening in two-dimensional diffusion limited aggregation, Phys. Rev. A 44, R828-R831 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Nonlinear susceptibilities of granular matter, Phys. Rev. B 43, 13682-13683 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld, Geometrical correlations and the origin of x values at the maximum and intersects of $T_c(x)$ in $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, J. de Physique 1, 159-166 (1991)
1991	R. Blumenfeld, Phase coherence oscillation of holes in $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, dynamics of single holes in the $CuO$ plane and the typical pairing time, Physica A 168, 705-713 (1990); (Erratum) Physica {\bf A 180}, 462 (1991)
1990	G. Corsten, C. Liem, R. Blumenfeld and N. Jan, Pairing of holes via vortex/antivortex attraction in doped $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, J. de Physique 51, 2229-2233 (1990)
1990	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Reply to Comment on "Breakdown of multifractal behaviour in diffusion limited aggregates", Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1843 (1990)
1990	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Universal scaling of the stress field at the vicinity of a wedge crack in two dimensions and oscillatory self-similar corrections to scaling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 6, 1784-1787 (1990)
1990	R. Blumenfeld, Novel flux solutions in nonlinear continuum systems with negative dynamic resistance, Physica A 168, 697-704 (1990)
1990^*	R. Blumenfeld, Novel flux solutions in nonlinear conducting continuum systems with negative dynamic resistance, in Proceedings of the EPS-8 meeting Trends in Physics, Ed. F. Pleiter (1990)
1990^*	R. Blumenfeld, N. Jan, G. Corsten and C. Liem, Evidence for vortex/antivortex mediated pairing of holes in doped $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ and a possible mechanism for the holes movement, in Proceedings of the EPS-8 meeting Trends in Physics, Ed. F. Pleiter (1990)
1990^*	R. C. Ball and R. Blumenfeld, Universal scaling of the stress field generated by a two dimensional wedge crack and periodic self-similar corrections to scaling, in Proceedings of the EPS-8 meeting Trends in Physics, Ed. F. Pleiter (1990)
1990^*	G. Corsten, C. Liem, R. Blumenfeld, N. Jan and C. Bowen, Vortex-antivortex pairing of holes in frustrated XY spin systems, in Correlations and connectivity, Eds. H. E. Stanley and N. Ostrowsky (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990)
1990^*	R. Blumenfeld and R. C. Ball, Universally correlated scale-invariant sidebranching in propagation of a two-dimensional cracking growth, in Correlations and connectivity, Eds. H. E. Stanley and N. Ostrowsky (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990)
1989	O. Entin-Wohlman, U. Sivan, R. Blumenfeld and Y. Meir, Dynamic structure factor of fractals, Physica D 38, 93-97 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Exact calculation to second order of the effective dielectric constant of a strongly nonlinear composite, Phys. Rev. B 40, (Rapid Comm.) 1987-1989 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld, Universality and superuniversality of multifractals in nonlinear networks, J. Stat. Phys. 56, 233-241 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Breakdown of multifractal behaviour in diffusion limited aggregates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2977-2980 (1989)
1989	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Nonlinear dielectrics: electrostatics of random media and propagation of waves in a homogeneous slab, Physica A 157, 428-436 (1989)
1989	A. Aharony, R. Blumenfeld, P. Breton, B. Fourcade, A. B. Harris, Y. Meir and A. -M. S. Tremblay, Negative moments of currents in percolating resistor networks, Phys. Rev. 40, (Brief Report) 7318 (1989)
1988	U. Sivan, R. Blumenfeld, Y. Meir and O. Entin-Wohlman, Dynamic structure factor of a deterministic fractal, Europhys. Lett. 7, 249-253 (1988)
1988	R. Blumenfeld, Probability densities of homogeneous functions: Explicit approximation and applications to percolating networks, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 21, 815-825 (1988)
1987	Y. Meir, R. Blumenfeld, A. B. Harris and A. Aharony, Series analysis of randomly diluted nonlinear networks with negative nonlinearity exponent, Phys. Rev. B 36, 3950-3952 (1987)
1987	R. Blumenfeld and D. J. Bergman, Fluid flow in a random porous medium: A network model and effective medium approximation, J. Appl. Phys. 62, 1616-1621 (1987)
1987	R. Blumenfeld, Y. Meir, A. Aharony and A. B. Harris, Resistance fluctuations in randomly diluted networks, Phys. Rev. B 35, 3524-3535 (1987)
1986	Y. Meir, R. Blumenfeld, A. Aharony and A. B. Harris, Series analysis of randomly diluted nonlinear resistor networks, Phys. Rev. B 34, 3424-3428 (1986)
1986	R. Blumenfeld, Y. Meir, A. B. Harris and A. Aharony, Infinite set of exponents describing physics on fractal networks, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 19, L791-L796 (1986)	1989
1985	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Nonlinear resistor fractal networks, topological distances, singly connected bonds and fluctuations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 18, L443-L448 (1985)
1985^*	R. Blumenfeld and A. Aharony, Nonlinear resistor fractal networks, topological distances, singly connected bonds and fluctuations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 18, L443-L448 (1985)