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Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco is a biophysicist and a professor at The Rockefeller University.
Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 14, 1963 (age 60) |
| Citizenship | Argentina, U. S. A. |
| Alma mater | The University of Chicago |
| Known for | Thermal ratchet, Auditory Physiology, dating the Odyssey |
| Awards | University of Chicago’s Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow, William Rainey Harper Dissertation-year Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical neuroscience |
| Institutions | The Rockefeller University, International Centre for Theoretical Physics |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo P. Kadanoff |
| Other academic advisors | Oreste Piro Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Albert J. Libchaber |
He is known for his work on thermal ratchets as models of biological motors,[1] auditory biophysics,[2][3] bailout embeddings,[4] neural coding,[5] other studies of biological networks such as leaf venation,[6] and for placing the date of the solar eclipse mentioned in the Odyssey on April 16, 1178 B.C.[7] together with Constantino Baikouzis of the National University of La Plata.[8][9]
In 2013, Magnasco formed the m2c2 collaboration with cetacean researcher Diana Reiss in order to study marine mammal communication and cognition.[10][11] Their interdisciplinary team is probing dolphin intelligence using an underwater interactive touchpad at the National Aquarium (Baltimore).[12]
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