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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

Mixtures of colloids and wormlike micelles: Phase behavior and kinetics
G Petekidis, LA Galloway, SU Egelhaaf, ME Cates, WCK Poon
– Langmuir
(2002)
18,
4248
(doi: 10.1021/la011751x)
Multiple glassy states in a simple model system.
KN Pham, AM Puertas, J Bergenholtz, SU Egelhaaf, A Moussaïd, PN Pusey, AB Schofield, ME Cates, M Fuchs, WCK Poon
– Science
(2002)
296,
104
(doi: 10.1126/science.1068238)
Rheological and light scattering studies of cationic fluorocarbon surfactant solutions at low ionic strength
C Oelschlaeger, G Waton, E Buhler, SJ Candau, ME Cates
– Langmuir
(2002)
18,
3076
(doi: 10.1021/la015687v)
Comparative simulation study of colloidal gels and glasses
AM Puertas, M Fuchs, ME Cates
– Physical Review Letters
(2002)
88,
983011
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.098301)
Non-uniformities in polymer/liquid crystal mixtures
A Matsuyama, RML Evans, ME Cates
– The European physical journal. E, Soft matter
(2002)
9,
89
(doi: 10.1140/epje/i2002-10062-8)
Dynamics of interface instabilities in lamellar phases.
M Buchanan, J Leng, SU Egelhaaf, ME Cates
– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2002)
224,
U485
(link to publication)
Non-uniformities in polymer/liquid crystal mixtures I. Interfacial tension
A Matsuyama, RML Evans, ME Cates
– The European Physical Journal E
(2002)
9,
79
(doi: 10.1140/epje/i2002-10061-9)
Binary fluid demixing: The crossover region
I Pagonabarraga, AJ Wagner, ME Cates
– Journal of Statistical Physics
(2002)
107,
39
(doi: 10.1023/A:1014594101067)
Jamming, hysteresis, and oscillation in scalar models for shear thickening
DA Head, A Ajdari, ME Cates
– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
(2001)
64,
061509
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.061509)
Inertial effects in three-dimensional spinodal decomposition of a symmetric binary fluid mixture: a lattice Boltzmann study
VM KENDON, ME CATES, I PAGONABARRAGA, J-C DESPLAT, P BLADON
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2001)
440,
147
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112001004682)
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G1.08

Telephone

01223 337912

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