- 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
Active Ising Models of flocking: a field-theoretic approach
– The European physical journal. E, Soft matter
(2023)
46,
103
Orientation-Dependent Propulsion of Active Brownian Spheres: From Self-Advection to Programmable Cluster Shapes.
– Physical Review Letters
(2023)
131,
168203
Active-passive mixtures with bulk loading: a minimal active engine in one dimension
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2023)
2023,
083212
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/acecfa)
Two-Dimensional Crystals far from Equilibrium
– Physical Review Letters
(2023)
131,
047101
Tricritical Behavior in Dynamical Phase Transitions.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2023)
131,
017102
Towards a liquid-state theory for active matter(a)
– Europhysics Letters
(2023)
142,
57004
(doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/acd79c)
Interface Roughening in Nonequilibrium Phase-Separated Systems
– Physical review letters
(2023)
130,
187102
Rheology of Dense Suspensions under Shear Rotation
– Physical Review Letters
(2023)
130,
118202
Classical Nucleation Theory for Active Fluid Phase Separation
– Physical review letters
(2023)
130,
098203
Role of initial conditions in $1D$ diffusive systems: compressibility,
hyperuniformity and long-term memory
– Physical Review E
(2022)
106,
L062101
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.106.l062101)
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