- 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
Shear banding, aging and noise dynamics in soft glassy materials
– Soft Matter
(2009)
5,
2378
(doi: 10.1039/b812394m)
Hydrodynamic of active liquid crystals: A hybrid lattice Boltzmann approach
– Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
(2008)
494,
293
(doi: 10.1080/15421400802430117)
Hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal ferrofluids: a lattice Boltzmann study.
– Journal of Physical Chemistry B
(2008)
113,
3681
(doi: 10.1021/jp806678m)
The bijel: a bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gel
– NSTI NANOTECH 2008, VOL 2, TECHNICAL PROCEEDINGS
(2008)
2,
657
First-principles constitutive equation for suspension rheology
– Physical Review Letters
(2008)
101,
138301
Shearing active gels close to the isotropic-nematic transition
– Physical review letters
(2008)
101,
068102
Arrest of fluid demixing by nanoparticles: A computer simulation study
– Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
(2008)
24,
6549
(doi: 10.1021/la800263n)
Statistical Mechanics of Interacting Run-and-Tumble Bacteria
– Physical Review Letters
(2008)
100,
218103
Dynamic scaling of desert dunes
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2008)
77,
031302
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.77.031302)
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