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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

Hard discs under steady shear: comparison of brownian dynamics simulations and mode coupling theory
O Henrich, F Weysser, ME Cates, M Fuchs
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2009)
367,
5033
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0191)
Hawkes process as a model of social interactions: a view on video dynamics
L Mitchell, ME Cates
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2009)
43,
045101
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/43/4/045101)
Colloidal gels assembled via a temporary interfacial scaffold.
E Sanz, KA White, PS Clegg, ME Cates
– Physical review letters
(2009)
103,
255502
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.255502)
Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid crystalline fluids: Active gels and blue phases
ME Cates, O Henrich, D Marenduzzo, K Stratford
– Soft Matter
(2009)
5,
3791
(doi: 10.1039/b908659p)
Crystallization of hard-sphere glasses.
E Zaccarelli, C Valeriani, E Sanz, WCK Poon, ME Cates, PN Pusey
– Physical Review Letters
(2009)
103,
135704
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.135704)
Glass rheology: From mode-coupling theory to a dynamical yield criterion.
JM Brader, T Voigtmann, M Fuchs, RG Larson, ME Cates
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2009)
106,
15186
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.0905330106)
A mode coupling theory for Brownian particles in homogeneous steady shear flow
M Fuchs, ME Cates
– Journal of Rheology
(2009)
53,
957
(doi: 10.1122/1.3119084)
Sedimentation, trapping, and rectification of dilute bacteria
J Tailleur, ME Cates
– EPL (Europhysics Letters)
(2009)
86,
60002
(doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/86/60002)
Shear banding, aging and noise dynamics in soft glassy materials
SM Fielding, ME Cates, P Sollich
– Soft Matter
(2009)
5,
2378
(doi: 10.1039/b812394m)
Hydrodynamic of Active Liquid Crystals: A Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Approach
E Orlandini, ME Cates, D Marenduzzo, L Tubiana, JM Yeomans
– Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
(2008)
494,
293
(doi: 10.1080/15421400802430117)
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G1.08

Telephone

01223 337912

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