- 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 currently holds 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
Classical Nucleation Theory for Active Fluid Phase Separation
– Phys Rev Lett
(2023)
130,
098203
Role of initial conditions in one-dimensional diffusive systems: Compressibility, hyperuniformity, and long-term memory
– Phys Rev E
(2022)
106,
L062101
(DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.106.L062101)
Power fluctuations in sheared amorphous materials: A minimal model
– Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(2022)
105,
l052601
(DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L052601)
Efficient Bayesian inference of fully stochastic epidemiological models with applications to COVID-19.
– Royal Society open science
(2021)
8,
211065
(DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211065)
Capillary Interfacial Tension in Active Phase Separation.
– Physical Review Letters
(2021)
127,
068001
Constitutive models for well-entangled living polymers beyond the fast-breaking limit
– Journal of Rheology
(2021)
65,
633
(DOI: 10.1122/8.0000199)
Thermodynamics of Active Field Theories: Energetic Cost of Coupling to Reservoirs
– Physical Review X
(2021)
11,
021057
(DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021057)
Bayesian inference across multiple models suggests a strong increase in lethality of COVID-19 in late 2020 in the UK
(2021)
2021.03.10.21253311
(DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.10.21253311)
Statistical mechanics of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles.
– Physical review. E
(2021)
103,
032607
(DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.032607)
Collective motion in large deviations of active particles.
– Physical review. E
(2021)
103,
022603
(DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.022603)
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