Mark Damian McDonnell (born 28 February 1975[citation needed]) is an Australian electronic engineer and mathematician, notable for his work on stochastic resonance and more specifically suprathreshold stochastic resonance.
He received his PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2006), under Derek Abbott and Charles E. M. Pearce, also from the University of Adelaide, for a thesis entitled Theoretical Aspects of Stochastic Signal Quantisation and Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance.
[3] During the course of his PhD, he was also a visiting scholar at the University of Warwick, UK, under Nigel G. Stocks.
McDonnell worked as a research assistant in electromagnetic propagation, ice-penetrating radar, and as a computer systems engineer, at the University of Adelaide.
In 2007, he won a Fresh Science award, the Gertrude Rohan Prize, and an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship that he took up at the University of South Australia.