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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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

Flow-induced orientation and stretching of entangled polymers.
G Marrucci, G Ianniruberto
– Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
(2003)
361,
677
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1156)
Philosophical Transaction: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Series A) - Introduction
TCB McLeish, ME Cates, JS Higgins, PD Olmsted
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2003)
361,
637
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1169)
Dynamics of polydisperse polymer mixtures
I Pagonabarraga, ME Cates
– Macromolecules
(2003)
36,
934
(doi: 10.1021/ma020690m)
Arrest and flow of colloidal glasses
ME Cates
– Annales Henri Poincare
(2003)
4,
S647
(doi: 10.1007/s00023-003-0949-3)
Simulation study of nonergodicity transitions: Gelation in colloidal systems with short-range attractions
AM Puertas, M Fuchs, ME Cates
– Physical Review E
(2003)
67,
031406/13
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.031406)
Molecular modelling of entanglement - Discussion
PG de Gennes, M Doi, R Magerle, AN Semenov, DJ Read, ME Cates, XH Zheng
– PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
(2003)
361,
651
(link to publication)
Flow-induced orientation and stretching of entangled polymers - Discussion
AE Likhtman, G Marrucci, ME Cates
– PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
(2003)
361,
687
(link to publication)
Solvable Senescence Model Showing a Mortality Plateau
JB Coe, Y Mao, ME Cates
– Phys Rev Lett
(2002)
89,
288103
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.288103)
Non-Newtonian viscosity of interacting Brownian particles: Comparison of theory and data
M Fuchs, ME Cates
– Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
(2002)
15,
s401
(doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/15/1/355)
Theory of nonlinear rheology and yielding of dense colloidal suspensions
M Fuchs, ME Cates
– Phys Rev Lett
(2002)
89,
248304
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.248304)
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.08

Telephone

01223 337912

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