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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

Stress relaxation in living polymers: Results from a Poisson renewal model
R GRANEK, ME CATES
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1992)
96,
4758
(doi: 10.1063/1.462787)
Linear viscoelasticity of wormlike micelles: a comparison of micellar reaction kinetics
MS TURNER, ME CATES
– The European Physical Journal D
(1992)
2,
503
(doi: 10.1051/jp2:1992102)
Living networks: The role of cross-links in entangled surfactant solutions
TJ DRYE, ME CATES
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1992)
96,
1367
(doi: 10.1063/1.462172)
AMPHIPHILIC SELF-ASSEMBLY - ISOTROPIC BILAYER PHASES
ME CATES
– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(1992)
203,
303
(link to publication)
General discussion
RM Lynden-Bell, LV Woodcock, JHR Clarke, DJ Tildesley, J Yarwood, RD Noble, KE Gubbins, JPRB Walton, JMD MacElroy, LA Pozhar, JH Petropoulos, GP Matthews, DJ Morantz, JI Siepmann, ML Klein, RK Thomas, B Vessal, AR Hillman, ML Fernandez, P Meares, GB Suffritti, F Baros, ME Cates
– Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions
(1991)
87,
2063
(doi: 10.1039/FT9918702063)
General discussion
MacElroy, ME Cates, JHR Clarke, PB Warren, Tildesley, Klein, Hillman, I Rubinstein, GH Dibdin, Meares, Noble, Thomas, JH Petropoulos, A Hedley, G Eisenman, Vessal, G Dickel, Demi
– Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
(1991)
87,
2111
(doi: 10.1039/FT9918702111)
Coulonet al. reply
C Coulon, D Roux, ME Cates
– Phys Rev Lett
(1991)
67,
3194
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.3194)
The isotropic (“Sponge”) to lamellar transition in dilute surfactant systems
ME CATES
– Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
(1991)
176,
187
(doi: 10.1016/0378-4371(91)90440-n)
Dynamic relaxation of rodlike micelles
ME CATES, CM MARQUES, JP BOUCHAUD
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1991)
94,
8529
(doi: 10.1063/1.460086)
The effect of adsorbed polymer on the elastic moduli of surfactant bilayers
JT BROOKS, CM MARQUES, ME CATES
– Journal de Physique II
(1991)
1,
673
(doi: 10.1051/jp2:1991198)
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.08

Telephone

01223 337912

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