Michael Proctor (academic)

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Michael Proctor
FRS FIMA FRAS
Born
Michael Richard Edward Proctor

(1950-09-19) 19 September 1950 (age 74)
Bournemouth
NationalityBritish
EducationShrewsbury School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge (MMath, PhD)
ThesisNon-linear mean field dynamo models and related topics (1975)
Doctoral advisorKeith Moffatt[1]
Websitewww.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/fellows/michael-proctor Edit this at Wikidata

Michael Richard Edward Proctor FRS FIMA FRAS (born 19 September 1950)[2] 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 Provost of King's College, Cambridge and school governor at Eton College.[3][4][5][6]

Early life and education

Proctor was born on 19 September 1950. The son of a farmer, he grew up in Spalding, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School[4] and won a scholarship to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge,[4][7] and matriculated at the college in 1968.[8] He achieved a distinction in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos and then graduated in 1972 with a Master of Mathematics (MMath) degree.[7] From 1972 to 1973, he was a Kennedy Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.[9] He then returned to the University of Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research supervised by Keith Moffatt.[4][7] He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in July 1975 on non-linear mean field dynamo models.[9][10][7] In 1995, he was awarded a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree, a higher doctorate, by the University of Cambridge.[9]

Career and research

In 1974, Proctor was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] From 1975 to 1977, he was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[11] He returned to the University of Cambridge in 1977 as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.[4][11] In the same year he was appointed a college lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge.[7] He served as a tutor at Trinity from 1979 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1994.[11] At university level, he was promoted to lecturer in 1982.[4]

He was promoted to Reader in 1994.[12] In the same year, he was elected Dean of Trinity College.[11] In 2000, he was appointed Professor of Astrophysical Fluid dynamics.[4] He was elected Vice-Master of Trinity College in 2006.[2][11] In 2012, he was elected Provost of King's College, Cambridge.[8] He moved from Trinity to King's to take up the position at the start of the 2013 academic year.[4] On 2 May 2017, he was re-elected for a second five-year term as provost from 1 October 2018.[13]

Honours and awards

In 1977, Proctor was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS).[4] He was awarded a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree by the University of Cambridge in 1995.[7] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2006,[2][14][15] and as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) in 2007.[4]

References

  1. ^ Michael Proctor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c Anon (2017). "Proctor, Prof. Michael Richard Edward". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U151348. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Our Governing Body". etoncollege.com.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Michael Richard Edward PROCTOR". People of Today. Debrett's. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Michael Proctor ScD FRS FIMA". Personal website. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  6. ^ Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 11 September 2018 (video)
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Michael Richard Edward Proctor: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  8. ^ a b "New Provost-elect of the College". News. King's College, Cambridge. 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  9. ^ a b c "Michael Richard Edward Proctor FRS: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. University of Oxford. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  10. ^ Proctor, Richard Edward Proctor (1975). Non-linear mean field dynamo models and related topics. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 503075350. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.469560.
  11. ^ a b c d e "Professor Michael Proctor". People. Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  12. ^ "Professor Michael Richard Edward Proctor | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics". Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Professor Michael Proctor re-elected". King's College. University of Cambridge. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  14. ^ "Awards and prizes". University of Cambridge. 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  15. ^ "Current Fellows". Fellowship of the Royal Society. Royal Society. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
Academic offices
Preceded by Provost of King's College, Cambridge
2013 to 2023 		Succeeded by