- 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
Cluster Phases and Bubbly Phase Separation in Active Fluids: Reversal of the Ostwald Process
– Physical Review X
(2018)
8,
031080
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031080)
Dynamic Vorticity Banding in Discontinuously Shear Thickening Suspensions
– Physical Review Letters
(2018)
121,
108003
Self-Assembly-Mediated Release of Peptide Nanoparticles through Jets Across Microdroplet Interfaces
– ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
(2018)
10,
27578
(doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b09511)
Shear reversal in dense suspensions: the challenge to fabric evolution models from simulation data
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2018)
847,
700
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2018.279)
Mixtures of Blue Phase Liquid Crystal with Simple Liquids: Elastic Emulsions and Cubic Fluid Cylinders.
– Physical review letters
(2018)
121,
037802
Strong Coupling in Conserved Surface Roughening: A New Universality Class?
– Physical Review Letters
(2018)
121,
020601
Generalized thermodynamics of motility-induced phase separation: phase equilibria, Laplace pressure, and change of ensembles
– New Journal of Physics
(2018)
20,
075001
(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aaccdd)
Extracting maximum power from active colloidal heat engines
– EPL (Europhysics Letters)
(2018)
121,
60005
(doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/121/60005)
Shaken and stirred: Random organization reduces viscosity and dissipation in granular suspensions.
– Science advances
(2018)
4,
eaar3296
(doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aar3296)
Generalized thermodynamics of phase equilibria in scalar active matter.
– Physical review. E
(2018)
97,
020602
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.020602)
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