- 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
Density profiles and thermodynamics of rod-like particles between parallel walls
– Molecular Physics
(2010)
92,
151
(doi: 10.1080/002689797170716)
Thermal fluctuations in the lattice Boltzmann method for nonideal fluids
– 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
– Nat Commun
(2010)
1,
114
(doi: 10.1038/ncomms1119)
Mode-coupling theory for the rheology of colloidal glasses: Recent progress
– Progress of Theoretical Physics
(2010)
222
Colloids in cholesterics: Size-dependent defects and non-Stokesian microrheology
– Physical Review Letters
(2010)
105,
178302
Three-dimensional structure and growth of myelins.
– 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.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2010)
107,
13212
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1004269107)
Run-and-tumble particles with hydrodynamics: Sedimentation, trapping, and upstream swimming
– Phys Rev Lett
(2010)
104,
258101
Arrested phase separation in reproducing bacteria creates a generic route to pattern formation
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2010)
107,
11715
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1001994107)
Domain growth in cholesteric blue phases: Hybrid lattice Boltzmann simulations
– Computers and Mathematics with Applications
(2010)
59,
2360
(doi: 10.1016/j.camwa.2009.08.047)
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