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Professor Michael Cates

  • 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

Filling an Emulsion Drop with Motile Bacteria
ID Vladescu, EJ Marsden, J Schwarz-Linek, VA Martinez, J Arlt, AN Morozov, D Marenduzzo, ME Cates, WCK Poon
– Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
113,
268101
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.268101)
Spontaneous motility of passive emulsion droplets in polar active gels
G De Magistris, A Tiribocchi, CA Whitfield, RJ Hawkins, ME Cates, D Marenduzzo
– Soft Matter
(2014)
10,
7826
(doi: 10.1039/c4sm00937a)
Activity-induced clustering in model dumbbell swimmers: the role of hydrodynamic interactions.
A Furukawa, D Marenduzzo, ME Cates
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2014)
90,
022303
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.022303)
Granulation and bistability in non-Brownian suspensions
ME Cates, M Wyart
– Rheologica Acta
(2014)
53,
755
(doi: 10.1007/s00397-014-0795-x)
Scalar φ 4 field theory for active-particle phase separation
R Wittkowski, A Tiribocchi, J Stenhammar, RJ Allen, D Marenduzzo, ME Cates
– Nature Communications
(2014)
5,
4351
(doi: 10.1038/ncomms5351)
Self-assembly of colloid-cholesteric composites provides a possible route to switchable optical materials.
K Stratford, O Henrich, JS Lintuvuori, ME Cates, D Marenduzzo
– Nature Communications
(2014)
5,
3954
(doi: 10.1038/ncomms4954)
Discontinuous shear thickening without inertia in dense non-brownian suspensions
M Wyart, ME Cates
– Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
112,
098302
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.098302)
Chemotactic clusters in confined run-and-tumble bacteria: a numerical investigation
EJ Marsden, C Valeriani, I Sullivan, ME Cates, D Marenduzzo
– Soft matter
(2014)
10,
157
(doi: 10.1039/c3sm52358f)
Phase behaviour of active Brownian particles: The role of dimensionality
J Stenhammar, D Marenduzzo, RJ Allen, ME Cates
– Soft Matter
(2014)
10,
1489
(doi: 10.1039/c3sm52813h)
Avalanches mediate crystallization in a hard-sphere glass.
E Sanz, C Valeriani, E Zaccarelli, WCK Poon, ME Cates, PN Pusey
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2013)
111,
75
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308338110)
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01223 337912

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