Residence New York City Doctoral advisor Leo Kadanoff Education University of Chicago | Name Marcelo Magnasco Citizenship Argentina, U. S. A. | |
Institutions The Rockefeller University, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Alma mater The University of Chicago Other academic advisors Oreste Piro
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
Albert J. Libchaber Doctoral students Guillermo Cecchi, Yong Choe, Mariano Sigman, Timothy J. Gardner, Thibaud Taillefumier Fields Computational neuroscience | ||
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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