About Me
I am an "enseignant-chercheur" (Assistant Professor, Reader) at the Physics Department at The University of Western Brittany.
I am also a member of the mathematics laboratory, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Bretagne Atlantique. I have three (mostly unrelated) areas of interest: (1) ocean dynamics and climate, (2) fundamental physics and general relativity, (3) biophysics and diseases of ageing.
You can contact me via email at: robert.scott@univ-brest.fr
News
- [Jun. 2025] Camille Devallez started her internship on protein physics, working with me and statistician Jean-Marc Derrien for our collaboration with biophysicist Andreas Barth.
- [Jun. 2025] Our paper was published at Physical Review Fluids! Lead author is Ph.D. student Avik Mondal, working with my long-time collaborator, Brian Arbic.
- [April 2025] Our grant was awarded! I received substantial computing resources on the super computers at Cines and TGCC via GENCI to continue our molecular dynamics simulations for the preliminary work on Amyloid Beta protein, that I started with biophysicist Andreas Barth in 2022.
Research Projects
- Interpreting Surface Plasmon Resonace (SRP) data: For my collaboration with experimental chemists Antony Memboeuf and Giuseppe Grasso. Here is a tool to calculate the refractive index of light and heavy water.
- Alzheimer's Disease Using the super computers at Cines and TGCC via GENCI to continue our molecular dynamics simulations for the preliminary work on Amyloid Beta protein, that I started with biophysicist Andreas Barth in 2022.
Featured Publications
Spatiotemporal spectral transfers in fluid dynamics
Avik Mondal, Andre Morten, Brian K. Arbic, Glenn Flierl, Robert B. Scott, Joseph Skitka
Physical Review Fluids, June 2025
Visualization of flat and curved spacetimes with simple cartography tools
Robert B. Scott
European Journal of Physics, Vol 41., 2021
A Student's Manual for A First Course in GENERAL RELATIVITY
Robert B. Scott
Cambridge University Press, 2016
Problems and Solutions on Vector Spaces for Physicists
Robert B. Scott
Springer, 2023
See CV or Google Scholar for a complete list.