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).