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Professor Michael Cates

  • 2015-date: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
  • 2007-2022: Royal Society Research Professor
  • 1995-2015: 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 recently completed an ERC Advanced Grant called ADNeSP: Active and Driven Systems, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics.

Prizes and Awards

  • 2021: International Member, US National Academy of Sciences
  • 2019: International Member, US National Academy of Engineering
  • 2016: Bingham Medal, US Society of Rheology
  • 2013: Weissenberg Award, European Society of Rheology
  • 2009: Dirac Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics
  • 2009: Gold Medal, British Society of Rheology
  • 2007: Fellow of the Royal Society (London)
  • 2005: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 1996: Fellow of the Institute of Physics
  • 1994: Prix Franco-Britannique (Paris Academy of Sciences)
  • 1991: Maxwell Prize and Medal, Institute of Physics

Publications

Active soft matter
FC MacKintosh, ME Cates
– Soft Matter
(2011)
7,
3050
(doi: 10.1039/c1sm90014e)
Shear banding and flow-concentration coupling in colloidal glasses.
R Besseling, L Isa, P Ballesta, G Petekidis, ME Cates, WCK Poon
– Phys Rev Lett
(2010)
105,
268301
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.268301)
Colloids in liquid crystals: A lattice Boltzmann study
JS Lintuvuori, D Marenduzzo, K Stratford, ME Cates
– Journal of Materials Chemistry
(2010)
20,
10547
(doi: 10.1039/c0jm01824d)
Density profiles and thermodynamics of rod-like particles between parallel walls
Y Mao, P Bladon, HNW Lekkerkerker, CA Cates
– Molecular Physics
(2010)
92,
151
(doi: 10.1080/002689797170716)
Thermal fluctuations in the lattice Boltzmann method for nonideal fluids
M Gross, R Adhikari, ME Cates, F Varnik
– Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(2010)
82,
056714
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.82.056714)
Dilatancy in the flow and fracture of stretched colloidal suspensions.
MI Smith, R Besseling, ME Cates, V Bertola
– Nature communications
(2010)
1,
114
(doi: 10.1038/ncomms1119)
Mode-coupling theory for the rheology of colloidal glasses: Recent progress
ME Cates
– Progress of Theoretical Physics
(2010)
222
Colloids in cholesterics: size-dependent defects and non-stokesian microrheology.
JS Lintuvuori, K Stratford, ME Cates, D Marenduzzo
– Physical review letters
(2010)
105,
178302
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.178302)
Three-dimensional structure and growth of myelins
L Reissig, DJ Fairhurst, J Leng, ME Cates, AR Mount, SU Egelhaaf
– Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
(2010)
26,
15192
(doi: 10.1021/la102726r)
Ordering dynamics of blue phases entails kinetic stabilization of amorphous networks
O Henrich, K Stratford, D Marenduzzo, ME Cates
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2010)
107,
13212
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1004269107)
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01223 337912

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