- 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
Chiral active matter: microscopic ‘torque dipoles’ have more than one hydrodynamic description
– New Journal of Physics
(2019)
21,
112001
(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab54af)
Constitutive Model for Time-Dependent Flows of Shear-Thickening Suspensions
– Physical review letters
(2019)
123,
214504
Autonomous engines driven by active matter: Energetics and design principles
– arXiv preprint 1905.00373
(2019)
9,
041032
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041032)
Hydrodynamically Interrupted Droplet Growth in Scalar Active Matter
– Phys Rev Lett
(2019)
123,
148005
Dynamic clustering and re-dispersion in concentrated colloid-active gel composites
– Soft Matter
(2019)
15,
6896
(doi: 10.1039/c9sm01249d)
Competing chemical and hydrodynamic interactions in autophoretic colloidal suspensions.
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2019)
151,
044901
(doi: 10.1063/1.5090179)
Conching chocolate is a prototypical transition from frictionally jammed solid to flowable suspension with maximal solid content
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2019)
116,
10303
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1901858116)
Shear-Induced First-Order Transition in Polar Liquid Crystals.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2019)
122,
088004
Optimizing active work: Dynamical phase transitions, collective motion, and jamming.
– Phys Rev E
(2019)
99,
022605
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.022605)
From bulk to microphase separation in scalar active matter: a perturbative renormalization group analysis
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2018)
2018,
123208
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/aaf321)
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