- 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
Active Viscoelastic Matter: From Bacterial Drag Reduction to Turbulent Solids
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
098302
Motility-Induced Phase Separation
– ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, VOL 6
(2015)
6,
1
A minimal physical model captures the shapes of crawling cells.
– Nature communications
(2015)
6,
5420
(doi: 10.1038/ncomms6420)
Activity-induced phase separation and self-assembly in mixtures of active and passive particles
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
018301
Celebrating Soft Matter's 10th anniversary: Testing the foundations of classical entropy: colloid experiments.
– Soft Matter
(2015)
11,
6538
(doi: 10.1039/c5sm01014d)
Filling an Emulsion Drop with Motile Bacteria
– Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
113,
268101
Spontaneous motility of passive emulsion droplets in polar active gels
– Soft Matter
(2014)
10,
7826
(doi: 10.1039/c4sm00937a)
Activity-induced clustering in model dumbbell swimmers: The role of hydrodynamic interactions
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2014)
90,
022303
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.90.022303)
Granulation and bistability in non-Brownian suspensions
– Rheologica Acta
(2014)
53,
755
(doi: 10.1007/s00397-014-0795-x)
Scalar φ4 field theory for active-particle phase separation.
– Nature Communications
(2014)
5,
4351
(doi: 10.1038/ncomms5351)
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