- 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
Contractile and chiral activities codetermine the helicity of swimming droplet trajectories.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2017)
114,
4631
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619960114)
Entropy production in field theories without time-reversal symmetry: Quantifying the non-equilibrium character of active matter
– Physical Review X
(2017)
7,
021007
(doi: 10.1103/physrevx.7.021007)
Pattern formation in chemically interacting active rotors with self-propulsion.
– Soft matter
(2016)
12,
7259
(doi: 10.1039/c6sm01162d)
Tunable shear thickening in suspensions.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2016)
113,
10774
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1608348113)
Unsteady flow and particle migration in dense, non-Brownian suspensions
– Journal of Rheology
(2016)
60,
905
(doi: 10.1122/1.4953814)
Soft interfacial materials: From fundamentals to formulation
– Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
(2016)
374,
20150135
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0135)
How Far from Equilibrium Is Active Matter?
– Physical review letters
(2016)
117,
038103
Light-induced self-assembly of active rectification devices
– Science advances
(2016)
2,
e1501850
(doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501850)
Viscoelastic and elastomeric active matter: Linear instability and nonlinear dynamics
– Physical review. E
(2016)
93,
032702
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032702)
Clustering and Pattern Formation in Chemorepulsive Active Colloids
– Phys Rev Lett
(2015)
115,
258301
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