| Erich Pascal Malkemper | |
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| Born | (1985-06-24) 24 June 1985 (age 39) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Ruhr University Bochum (MSc) University of Duisburg-Essen (PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | Center of Advanced European Studies and Research |
| Doctoral advisors | Hynek Burda |
| Other academic advisors | David Keays |
| Website | https://www.malkemper-lab.com/Contact/ |
Erich Pascal Malkemper (born 24 June 1985) is a German neuroscientist. He studies magnetoreception and animal hearing and he is currently a group leader of the Max Planck Society at the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR) in Bonn, Germany.
Education
Malkemper studied neurobiology at the Ruhr University Bochum. He received his MSc degree there in 2011. He received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2014, working with Hynek Burda [de]. His PhD in Duisburg-Essen was followed by a postdoctoral position with David A. Keays at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria.
Research achievements
In 2014 Malkemper showed that woodmice have a radio-frequency dependent magnetic sense. As well in 2014, he received an Ig Nobel Prize for his work on magnetoreception in dogs. Furthermore, he provided support for the absence of magnetite magnetoreceptors in the inner ear. Such receptors had been previously hypothesized at this location, because of the presence of iron rich hair organelles in the inner ear of birds.
In 2020 Malkemper was awarded and ERC Start grant valued at 1.5 million euros to investigate magnetoreception in rodents.
References
- Malkemper, E. Pascal; Eder, Stephan H. K.; Begall, Sabine; Phillips, John B.; Winklhofer, Michael; Hart, Vlastimil; Burda, Hynek (May 2015). "Magnetoreception in the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus): influence of weak frequency-modulated radio frequency fields". Scientific Reports. 5 (1): 9917. Bibcode:2015NatSR...4E9917M. doi:10.1038/srep09917. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4413948. PMID 25923312.
- "The Ig Nobel Prize Winners". Improbable Research. 2006-08-01. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- Malkemper, E. Pascal; Kagerbauer, Daniel; Ushakova, Lyubov; Nimpf, Simon; Pichler, Paul; Treiber, Christoph D.; de Jonge, Martin; Shaw, Jeremy; Keays, David A. (January 2019). "No evidence for a magnetite-based magnetoreceptor in the lagena of pigeons". Current Biology. 29 (1): R14–R15. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.032. PMID 30620907.