Michael Cates

Michael E. Cates, is a British theoretical solid state physicist who with statistical mechanics is concerned soft matter.

Cates in 1985 received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge ( Trinity College) in Samuel Edwards. After a period as a post- doctoral researcher in the U.S., he was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Cambridge. He is since 1995 Professor of Theoretical Physics (Natural Philosophy) at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2007, he has a Royal Society Research Professorship.

In 2009 he was awarded the Dirac Medal ( IOP) for pioneering work in the field of soft matter and in particular their flow behavior. In the same year he received the Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology. In 2011 he was awarded the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize of the European Physics Journal.

In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society in 2007.

Writings

• Martin Evans (Editor) Soft and fragile matter: nonequilibrium dynamics, metastability, and flow ( Proc. 53rd Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, 1999 ), Institute of Physics Publ, 2000