Ben Vollmayr-Lee

Ben Vollmayr-Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Bucknell University. His research focuses on theoretical statistical physics, particularly non-equilibrium systems and critical phenomena.

• Education: Ph.D. in Physics from UC Santa Barbara (1994), with postdoctoral work at the University of Maryland and NIST.

His scholarly interests include:

• Coarsening Kinetics: Universality classes in phase separation dynamics.
• Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Field-theoretic renormalization group methods for non-equilibrium systems.
• Ionic Criticality: Interplay of energy and entropy in complex systems.
• General Statistical Mechanics: Nonintegrable interactions and numerical algorithms.

Recent publications highlight trends in nonequilibrium work relations, anomalous dimensions in reaction-diffusion systems, and computational approaches to coarsening. Collaborators include international researchers from institutions such as Virginia Tech, Dalhousie University, and NIST.

Students mentored by Vollmayr-Lee include Andy Baish (Bucknell '15), Greg Seyfarth (Colby '13), and Phil Marquis (Bucknell '07), among others.