Michael Proctor

Michael Richard Edward Proctor (born 19 September 1950) is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge and, until 2023, served as the Provost of King's College, Cambridge and school governor at Eton College.

Early life and education Proctor was born on 19 September 1950 in Bournemouth, Dorset. The son of a farmer, he grew up in Spalding, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and matriculated at the college in 1968. He then returned to the University of Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research supervised by Keith Moffatt. 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 elected Dean of Trinity College. He moved from Trinity to King's to take up the position at the start of the 2013 academic year.

Honours and awards In 1977, Proctor was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS). and as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) in 2007.