Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco is a biophysicist and a professor at

The Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classif ...

. He is known for his work on thermal ratchets as models of biological motors, auditory

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...

, bailout embeddings,

neural coding Neural coding (or Neural representation) is a neuroscience field concerned with characterising the hypothetical relationship between the stimulus and the individual or ensemble neuronal responses and the relationship among the electrical activit ...

, other studies of biological networks such as

leaf venation A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, ...

, and for placing the date of the

solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...

mentioned in the

Odyssey The ''Odyssey'' (; grc, Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, ) is one of two major Ancient Greek literature, ancient Greek Epic poetry, epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by moder ...

on April 16, 1178 B.C. together with Constantino Baikouzis of the

National University of La Plata The La Plata National University ( es, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is one of the most important Argentine national universities and the biggest one situated in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province. It has over 90 ...

. In 2013, Magnasco formed the m²c² collaboration with

cetacean Cetacea (; , ) is an infraorder of aquatic mammals that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body shape, often large size and exclusively carnivorous diet. They propel them ...

researcher

Diana Reiss Diana Reiss (born 1948 or 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professor of psychology at Hunter College and in the graduate program of Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at the City University of New York. Reiss's research has focused ...

in order to study marine mammal communication and cognition. Their interdisciplinary team is probing dolphin intelligence using an underwater interactive touchpad at the

National Aquarium (Baltimore) The National Aquarium – also known as National Aquarium in Baltimore and formerly known as Baltimore Aquarium – is a non-profit public aquarium located at 501 East Pratt Street on Pier 3 in the Inner Harbor area of downtown Baltimore, Maryla ...

References

External links

Home Page at Rockefeller University

Lewis Clark Vanexum Lecture at Princeton on Homer's Eclipse

BigThink interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Magnasco, Marcelo Osvaldo 1963 births Argentine biophysicists Argentine expatriates in the United States Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine physicists Living people Rockefeller University faculty University of Chicago alumni