2026 Michael P. Brenner: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	83	432	409	148	136	430	28449

Overview

Michael P. Brenner is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary areas within engineering and the physical sciences. Brenner's work notably integrates computational and experimental approaches, contributing to the understanding of complex systems.

The scientist's recent publications cover a broad range of topics, including language processing, weather and climate modeling, self-assembling kinetics, turbulence, and fluid dynamics. Significant papers include:

"Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models," 2022, published in Nature Neuroscience
"Neural general circulation models for weather and climate," 2024, published in Nature
"Designing self-assembling kinetics with differentiable statistical physics models," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Learned discretizations for passive scalar advection in a two-dimensional turbulent flow," 2021, published in Physical Review Fluids
"Phase separation in fluids with many interacting components," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Brenner frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Ella M. King, Ofer Kimchi, Zaid Zada, Mariano Schain, and Bobbi Aubrey. These collaborations have led to multiple coauthored publications that contribute to the scientist's interdisciplinary focus.

Their publication record shows frequent contributions to prominent venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature Communications
Nature

Michael P. Brenner's research primarily falls under the broad area of engineering, with particular emphasis on the following subfields:

Molecular Biology
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

The main topics addressed in Brenner's body of work include:

Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Micro and Nano Robotics
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Protein Structure and Dynamics

Best Publications

Experimental characterization of electrospinning: the electrically forced jet and instabilities

Y.M. Shin;M.M. Hohman;M.P. Brenner;G.C. Rutledge

1567
Citations
Electrospinning and electrically forced jets. I. Stability theory

Moses M. Hohman;Michael Shin;Gregory Rutledge;Michael P. Brenner

1513
Citations
Single bubble sonoluminescence

Michael P. Brenner;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse

1332
Citations
Controlling the fiber diameter during electrospinning.

Sergey V. Fridrikh;Jian H. Yu;Michael P. Brenner;Gregory C. Rutledge

1231
Citations
Electrospinning and electrically forced jets. II. Applications

Moses M. Hohman;Michael Shin;Gregory Rutledge;Michael P. Brenner

1072
Citations
Electrospinning: A whipping fluid jet generates submicron polymer fibers

Y. M. Shin;M. M. Hohman;M. P. Brenner;G. C. Rutledge

1015
Citations
Microfluidics: The no-slip boundary condition

Eric Lauga;Michael P. Brenner;Howard A. Stone

834
Citations
Machine learning-accelerated computational fluid dynamics.

Dmitrii Kochkov;Jamie A. Smith;Ayya Alieva;Qing Wang

755
Citations
Learning data-driven discretizations for partial differential equations.

Yohai Bar-Sinai;Stephan Hoyer;Jason Hickey;Michael P. Brenner

543
Citations
A cascade of structure in a drop falling from a faucet.

X. D. Shi;Michael P. Brenner;Sidney R. Nagel

503
Citations
Controlled release of nerve growth factor enhances sciatic nerve regeneration.

Annie C Lee;Vivian M Yu;James B Lowe;Michael J Brenner

473
Citations
Phase diagrams for sonoluminescing bubbles

Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner

437
Citations
Electric-field-induced capillary attraction between like-charged particles at liquid interfaces.

M. Nikolaides;M. Nikolaides;M. Nikolaides;Andreas Bausch;Andreas Bausch;Andreas Bausch;M. Hsu;A. Dinsmore;A. Dinsmore;A. Dinsmore

405
Citations
Dynamic Equilibrium Mechanism for Surface Nanobubble Stabilization

Michael P. Brenner;Detlef Lohse

379
Citations
The free-energy landscape of clusters of attractive hard spheres.

Guangnan Meng;Natalie Arkus;Michael P. Brenner;Vinothan N. Manoharan

378
Citations
Physical Mechanisms for Chemotactic Pattern Formation by Bacteria

Michael P. Brenner;Leonid S. Levitov;Elena O. Budrene

371
Citations
Osmotic spreading of Bacillus subtilis biofilms driven by an extracellular matrix

Agnese Seminara;Thomas E. Angelini;James N. Wilking;Hera Vlamakis

341
Citations
Physical ageing of the contact line on colloidal particles at liquid interfaces

David M. Kaz;Ryan McGorty;Madhav Mani;Madhav Mani;Michael P. Brenner

337
Citations
Effects of motor versus sensory nerve grafts on peripheral nerve regeneration.

Chris M. Nichols;Michael J. Brenner;Ida K. Fox;Thomas H. Tung

311
Citations
Sonoluminescing Air Bubbles Rectify Argon

Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner;Todd F. Dupont;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

310
Citations
Linear stability and transient growth in driven contact lines

Andrea L. Bertozzi;Michael P. Brenner

308
Citations