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Michael C. Mackey

BornNovember 16, 1942
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Alma mater University of Kansas
University of Washington
Occupation(s)Professor, researcher
AwardsForschungspreis, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (1987)
Scientific career
Institutions National Institutes of Health
McGill University
Doctoral advisor J. Walter Woodbury

Michael C. Mackey FRSC is a Canadian-American biomathematician and Professor in the Department of Physiology of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada who holds the Joseph Morley Drake Emeritus Chair. [1] [2]

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Biography

He received a Bachelor of Arts (BA, 1963) in Mathematics from the University of Kansas and completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., 1968) in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. [1]

He became a professor in the Department of Physiology at McGill University, as well as Director of the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine and the Mathematical Physiology Laboratory. [3]

In 1999, he was elected a fellow [4] of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Science. He is a Fellow [5] of the American Physical Society (2006), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics [6] (SIAM, 2009) and the Society for Mathematical Biology [7] (2017). He was awarded a Forschungspreis by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [8] at Bremen University in 1993, and a Doctorat honoris causa by the Universite de Lyon [9] in 2010 and the University of Silesia [10] in 2019, and was the Leverhulme Professor of Mathematical Biology at University of Oxford in 2001-2002.

Research

His research focuses on the development of mathematical models, such as the Mackey-Glass equations, [11] to describe physiological processes at the cellular and molecular levels as well as foundational questions in physics related to the nature of irreversibility, entropy, and the arrow of time. He developed, [12] with Leon Glass, the concept of dynamical disease in which a parameter change in a physiological control system is hypothesized to lead to pathological behavior, and the use of chaos theory to investigate such possibilities. [1]


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  2. Named/Endowed Chair Appointments at McGill University. Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic). McGill University. Consulted on 7 Feb. 2019.
  3. Michael C. Mackey , Ph.D., FRSC. Mathematical Physiology Laboratory. McGill University. Consulted on 6 Feb. 2019.
  4. "Fellows". Royal Society of Canada.
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  9. Mackey, Michael (19 November 2010). "Vingt troisièmes entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier".
  10. Mackey, Michael (28 December 2020). "Silesian University Honorary Degrees".
  11. Hans-Otto Walther (2020). "The impact on mathematics of the paper Oscillation and Chaos in Physiological Control Systems by Mackey and Glass in Science, 1977". arXiv: 2001.09010 [math.DS].
  12. McGill Reporter (25 July 2017). "Physiology profs appointed Mathematical Biology fellows". McGill.