Nationality British Doctoral advisor Keith Moffatt Fields Astrophysics | Role Physicist Name Michael Proctor | |
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Born Michael Richard Edward Proctor
19 September 1950 (age 73)
Bournemouth ( 1950-09-19 ) Institutions University of Cambridge Notable awards Doctor of Science (1995)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2006)
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2007) Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Similar People Keith Moffatt, Ross Harrison, Henry VI of England | ||
Institution University of Cambridge | ||
Michael Richard Edward Proctor, FRS, FIMA, FRAS (born 19 September 1950) is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge and, since his election in 2013, the current Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
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Early life
Proctor was born on 19 September 1950. The son of a farmer, he grew up in Spalding, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, then an all-boys public boarding school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He won a scholarship to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and matriculated at the college in 1968. He achieved a distinction in the final part of the Mathematical Tripos and graduated in 1972 with a Master of Mathematics (MMath) degree. He remained at the University of Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of H. K. Moffatt. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1975.
Academic career
In 1974, Proctor was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1975 to 1977, he was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned to the University of Cambridge in 1977 as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. In the same year he was appointed a college lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as a tutor at Trinity from 1979 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1994. At university level, he was promoted to lecturer in 1982.
He was promoted to Reader in 1994. In the same year, he was elected Dean of Trinity College. In 2000, he was appointed Professor of Astrophysical Fluid dynamics. He was elected Vice-Master of Trinity College in 2006. In 2012, he was elected Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He moved from Trinity to King's to take up the position at the start of the 2013 academic year.
Honours
In 1977, Proctor was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS). He was awarded a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree by the University of Cambridge in 1995. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2006, and as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) in 2007.