- 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
Arrest and flow of colloidal glasses
– Annales Henri Poincare
(2003)
4,
647
(doi: 10.1007/s00023-003-0949-3)
Simulation study of nonergodicity transitions: Gelation in colloidal systems with short-range attractions
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2003)
67,
13
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.031406)
Solvable senescence model showing a mortality plateau
– Physical review letters
(2002)
89,
288103
Non-Newtonian viscosity of interacting Brownian particles: Comparison of theory and data
– 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 - art. no. 248304
– Phys Rev Lett
(2002)
89,
248304
Schematic models for dynamic yielding of sheared colloidal glasses
– Faraday Discussions
(2002)
123,
267
(doi: 10.1039/B205629A)
Structural, Kinetics, and Rheological Properties of Low Ionic Strength Dilute Solutions of a Dimeric (Gemini) Surfactant
– Langmuir
(2002)
18,
7265
(doi: 10.1021/la025645m)
Rheological chaos in a scalar shear-thickening model.
– Physical Review E Statistical Physics Plasmas Fluids and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
(2002)
66,
025202
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.025202)
Dynamics of interface instabilities in lamellar phases.
– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2002)
224,
U485
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