| Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco | |
| Birth Place: | La Plata, Argentina |
| Citizenship: | Argentina, U. S. A. |
| Fields: | Theoretical neuroscience |
| Workplaces: | The Rockefeller University, International Centre for Theoretical Physics |
| Alma Mater: | The University of Chicago |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Leo P. Kadanoff |
| Academic Advisors: | Oreste Piro Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Albert J. Libchaber |
| Known For: | Thermal ratchet, Auditory Physiology, dating the Odyssey |
| Awards: | University of Chicago’s Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow,William Rainey Harper Dissertation-year Fellow |
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, auditory biophysics, bailout embeddings,[1] 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.
In 2013, Magnasco formed the m2c2 collaboration with cetacean researcher Diana Reiss in order to study marine mammal communication and cognition.[2] Their interdisciplinary team is probing dolphin intelligence using an underwater interactive touchpad at the National Aquarium (Baltimore).