Overview
Professor Charbonneau studies soft matter. His work combines theory and simulation to understand the glass problem, protein crystallization, microphase formation, and colloidal assembly in external fields.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Chemistry
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2020 - Present
Chemistry,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies of the University Program in Materials Science and Engineering
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2024 - Present
Pratt School of Engineering
Professor of Physics
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2020 - Present
Physics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Not-So-Glass-Like Caging and Fluctuations of an Active Matter Model
Journal Article Physical Review Letters · June 6, 2025 Simple active models of matter recapitulate complex biological phenomena. The out-of-equilibrium nature of these models, however, often makes them beyond the reach of first-principle descriptions. This limitation is particularly perplexing when attempting ... Full text CiteRare Trajectories in a Prototypical Mean-field Disordered Model: Insights into Landscape and Instantons
Preprint · April 30, 2025 Link to item CiteSimple Fluctuations in Simple Glass Formers.
Journal Article The journal of physical chemistry. B · December 2024 Critical single-particle fluctuations associated with particle displacements are inherent to simple glass-forming liquids in the limit of large dimensions and leave a pseudocritical trace across all finite dimensions. This characteristic could serve as a c ... Full text Open Access CiteRecent Grants
Cracking the Glass Problem
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Chicago · 2016 - 2023Soft Matter Simulation and Theory of the Crystal Assembly of Globular and Membrane Proteins
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2022Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2021View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Harvard University ·
2006
Ph.D.
McGill University (Canada) ·
2001
B.S.