Erich Pascal Malkemper
{{short description|German neuroscientist (b. 1985)}}
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- Global Young Faculty 2015-2017
- Fritz-Frank Award of the German Society for Mammalian Biology (DGS) 2015
- Ig Nobel Prize 2014
- Studienstiftung 2008-2014
- ERC Start Grant 2020
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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 {{ill|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.{{Cite journal|last=Malkemper|first=E. Pascal|last2=Eder|first2=Stephan H. K.|last3=Begall|first3=Sabine|last4=Phillips|first4=John B.|last5=Winklhofer|first5=Michael|last6=Hart|first6=Vlastimil|last7=Burda|first7=Hynek|date=May 2015|title=Magnetoreception in the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus): influence of weak frequency-modulated radio frequency fields|journal=Scientific Reports|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|pages=9917|doi=10.1038/srep09917|issn=2045-2322|pmc=4413948|pmid=25923312|bibcode=2015NatSR...4E9917M}} As well in 2014, he received an Ig Nobel Prize for his work on magnetoreception in dogs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/|title=The Ig Nobel Prize Winners|date=2006-08-01|website=Improbable Research|access-date=2020-04-14}} Furthermore, he provided support for the absence of magnetite magnetoreceptors in the inner ear.{{Cite journal|last=Malkemper|first=E. Pascal|last2=Kagerbauer|first2=Daniel|last3=Ushakova|first3=Lyubov|last4=Nimpf|first4=Simon|last5=Pichler|first5=Paul|last6=Treiber|first6=Christoph D.|last7=de Jonge|first7=Martin|last8=Shaw|first8=Jeremy|last9=Keays|first9=David A.|date=January 2019|title=No evidence for a magnetite-based magnetoreceptor in the lagena of pigeons|journal=Current Biology|language=en|volume=29|issue=1|pages=R14–R15|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.032|pmid=30620907|doi-access=free}} 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.
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