Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco

Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
BornDecember 14, 1963 (1963-12-14) (age 60)
La Plata, Argentina
CitizenshipArgentina, U. S. A.
Alma materThe University of Chicago
Known forThermal ratchet, Auditory Physiology, dating the Odyssey
AwardsUniversity of Chicago’s Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow, William Rainey Harper Dissertation-year Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical neuroscience
InstitutionsThe Rockefeller University, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Doctoral advisorLeo P. Kadanoff
Other academic advisorsOreste Piro
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
Albert J. Libchaber

Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco is a biophysicist and a professor at The Rockefeller University.

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]

  1. ^ Maddox, John (Sep 16, 1993), "Making Models of Muscle Contraction", Nature, 365 (6443): 203, Bibcode:1993Natur.365..203M, doi:10.1038/365203a0, PMID 8371773, S2CID 5602010
  2. ^ Ball, Phillip (Nov 2, 2001), "Canaries Change Their Tune", Nature News, doi:10.1038/news011108-2
  3. ^ Cho, Adrian (Jun 16, 2000), "What's shaking in the ear?", Science, 288 (5473): 1954–1955, doi:10.1126/science.288.5473.1954, PMID 10877709, S2CID 118174911
  4. ^ Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, and Oreste Piro "Bailout embeddings, targeting of invariant tori, and the control of Hamiltonian chaos", Phys. Rev. E 65, 045203(R) (2002).
  5. ^ Complexity Digest 2000.19, Complexity Digest, Feb 19, 2001
  6. ^ Lichtman, Flora (Feb 19, 2010), Lighting Up Leaves, Science Friday, archived from the original on 2011-09-28
  7. ^ Baikouzis, Constantino; Magnasco, Marcelo O. (June 24, 2008), "Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (26): 8823–8828, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803317105, PMC 2440358, PMID 18577587
  8. ^ Bär, Nora (July 1, 2008), "Hallan precisiones astronómicas en la poesía de Homero]", Diario la Nacion, Edicion, Diario La Nacion, retrieved 2008-01-07
  9. ^ Minkel, JR (Jun 23, 2008), "Homer's Odyssey Said to Document 3,200-Year-Old Eclipse", Scientific American (News)
  10. ^ "Marcelo Magnasco – m2c2". Retrieved 2019-08-14.
  11. ^ Marine Mammal Communication and Cognition Laboratory Website
  12. ^ Scientists to probe dolphin intelligence using an interactive touchpad (PDF), May 25, 2017