• B.Sc. Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1999
• M. Eng. Environmental Geophysics, Cornell University, 1999
• D. Phil. Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, 2003
• Marie-Curie Fellow, Ecole Normale Superieure, 2004-2006
• Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton, 2006
• Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, CNLS/T-13, LANL, Nov. 2006-Mar. 2008
• Feynman Fellow, CNLS/T-13, LANL, Mar. 2008-present

Research Interests:

• Bose-Einstein condensates
• Superfluidity
• Synchronization of weakly coupled oscillators
• Quantitative genetics

Selected Recent Publications:

1. A. G. Sykes, M. J. Davis, D. C. Roberts. Drag force on an impurity below the superfluid critical velocity in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085302 (2009).
2. D.C. Roberts and S. Rica. Impurity crystal in a Bose-Einstein condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 025301 (2009).
3. D.C. Roberts. A Linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model of self-synchronizing coupled oscillators, Phys. Rev. E 77, 031114 (2008).
4. E.O. Perlstein, D.M. Ruderfer, D.C. Roberts, S.L. Schreiber and L. Kruglyak. Genetic basis of individual differences in the response to small molecule drugs, Nature Genetics 39, 496 (2007).