- 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
Steady state entropy production rate for scalar Langevin field theories
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2021)
2021,
013211
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/abd311)
Time-reversal symmetry violations and entropy production in field theories of polar active matter
– New Journal of Physics
(2020)
22,
123012
(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/abcd66)
A full-chain tube-based constitutive model for living linear polymers
– Journal of Rheology
(2020)
64,
1465
(doi: 10.1122/8.0000114)
Ritz method for transition paths and quasipotentials of rare diffusive events
– Physical Review Research
(2020)
2,
033208
Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order
– Physical Review Research
(2020)
2,
032024
Thermodynamic cycles with active matter
– Phys Rev E
(2020)
102,
010101
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.010101)
Stealth Entropy Production in Active Field Theories near Ising Critical Points.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2020)
124,
240604
Inference, prediction and optimization of non-pharmaceutical
interventions using compartment models: the PyRoss library
(2020)
Non-equilibrium phase separation with reactions: a canonical model and its behaviour
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020,
053206
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab7e2d)
Constitutive model for shear-thickening suspensions: Predictions for steady shear with superposed transverse oscillations
– Journal of Rheology
(2020)
64,
353
(doi: 10.1122/1.5129657)
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