Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
| Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 14, 1963 (age 53) La Plata, Argentina |
| Residence | New York City |
| Citizenship | Argentina, U. S. A. |
| Fields | Theoretical neuroscience |
| Institutions | The Rockefeller University, International Centre for Theoretical Physics |
| Alma mater | The University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo P. Kadanoff |
| Other academic advisors |
Oreste Piro Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Albert J. Libchaber |
| Doctoral students | Guillermo Cecchi, Yong Choe, Mariano Sigman, Timothy J. Gardner, Thibaud Taillefumier |
| Known for | Thermal ratchet, Auditory Physiology, dating the Odyssey |
| Notable awards |
University of Chicago’s Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow, William Rainey Harper Dissertation-year Fellow |
University of Chicago’s Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow,
Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco is a biophysicist and currently a professor at the Rockefeller University.
He is known for his work on thermal ratchets as models of biological motors,auditory biophysics, neural coding,; other studies of biological networks such as leaf venation.; and for placing the date of the solar eclipse mentioned in the Odyssey on April 16, 1178 B.C. together with Constantino Baikouzis of the National University of La Plata.
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