Michael Richard Edward Proctor FRS FIMA FRAS (born 19 September 1950)[2] is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic.

[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.

[11] He returned to the University of Cambridge in 1977 as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.