
- 2015-date: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Royal Society Research Professor
- 2007-2015: Professor of Natural Philosophy and Royal Society Research Professor, University of Edinburgh
- 1995-2007: Professor of Natural Philosophy, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- 1992-1995: University Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1989-1992: University Assistant Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1988-1989: Royal Society University Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1985-1995: Junior Research Fellow (1985-1989), Teaching Fellow (1990-1995), Trinity College Cambridge
Research
Mike is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He heads the Soft Matter research group. His current research interests include: flow of colloids, polymers, emulsions, gels and other soft materials; shear-thickening and rheology in dense suspensions; dynamics of soft glasses; flow of liquid crystals; general theories of active matter; cellular locomotion; phase ordering in active and passive systems; statistical mechanics of active particles; and numerous other topics. He currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant called ADNeSP: Active and Driven Systems, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics.
Publications
Autonomous engines driven by active matter: Energetics and design principles
– arXiv preprint 1905.00373
(2019)
9,
041032
(DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.9.041032)
Hydrodynamically Interrupted Droplet Growth in Scalar Active Matter
– Phys Rev Lett
(2019)
123,
148005
Dynamic clustering and re-dispersion in concentrated colloid-active gel composites.
– Soft Matter
(2019)
15,
6896
(DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01249d)
Competing chemical and hydrodynamic interactions in autophoretic colloidal suspensions
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2019)
151,
044901
(DOI: 10.1063/1.5090179)
Conching chocolate is a prototypical transition from frictionally jammed solid to flowable suspension with maximal solid content
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2019)
116,
10303
(DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1901858116)
Shear-Induced First-Order Transition in Polar Liquid Crystals.
– Physical review letters
(2019)
122,
088004
Optimizing active work: Dynamical phase transitions, collective motion, and jamming.
– Physical Review E
(2019)
99,
022605
(DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.022605)
From bulk to microphase separation in scalar active matter: A perturbative renormalization group analysis
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2018)
2018,
123208
(DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/aaf321)
Cluster Phases and Bubbly Phase Separation in Active Fluids: Reversal of the Ostwald Process
– Physical Review X
(2018)
8,
031080
(DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.8.031080)
Dynamic Vorticity Banding in Discontinuously Shear Thickening Suspensions.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2018)
121,
108003
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