- 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 Model H: Scalar Active Matter in a Momentum-Conserving Fluid
– Phys Rev Lett
(2015)
115,
188302
Particle-size effects in the formation of bicontinuous Pickering emulsions
– Physical Review E
(2015)
92,
032308
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032308)
Active brownian particles and run-and-tumble particles: A comparative study
– European Physical Journal: Special Topics
(2015)
224,
1231
(doi: 10.1140/epjst/e2015-02457-0)
Pressure is not a state function for generic active fluids
– Nature Physics
(2015)
11,
673
(doi: 10.1038/nphys3377)
Pressure and phase equilibria in interacting active brownian spheres.
– Physical review letters
(2015)
114,
198301
Motility-Induced Phase Separation
– ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, VOL 6
(2015)
6,
1
Active viscoelastic matter: From bacterial drag reduction to turbulent solids
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
098302
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)
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