- 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
Stress propagation and Arching in Static Sandpiles
– The European Physical Journal B
(1997)
7,
39
(doi: 10.1051/jp1:1997126)
Editorial overview
– Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
(1997)
2,
359
Role of metastable states in phase ordering dynamics
– Europhysics Letters
(1997)
38,
595
(doi: 10.1209/epl/i1997-00289-y)
Theory of the depletion force due to rodlike polymers
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1997)
106,
3721
(doi: 10.1063/1.473424)
Deformation of Polyelectrolyte Brushes in Strong Flows: Good Solvent Regime
– Macromolecules
(1997)
30,
1179
(doi: 10.1021/ma9612337)
Arching effects in the stress distribution of sandpiles
– POWDERS & GRAINS 97
(1997)
303
Of micelles and many-layered vesicles
– THEORETICAL CHALLENGES IN THE DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX FLUIDS
(1997)
339,
257
Rheology of soft glassy materials
– Physical Review Letters
(1997)
78,
2020
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.78.2020)
Diffusive evolution of stable and metastable phases. I. Local dynamics of interfaces
– Physical Review E
(1997)
56,
5738
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.56.5738)
Linear theory of disordered fibre-reinforced composites
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A
(1997)
395,
89
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.1984.0091)
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