Erich Pascal Malkemper

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.

Erich Pascal Malkemper
Born	(1985-06-24) 24 June 1985
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Ruhr University Bochum (MSc) University of Duisburg-Essen (PhD)
Awards	Global Young Faculty 2015-2017 Fritz-Frank Award of the German Society for Mammalian Biology (DGS) 2015 Ig Nobel Prize 2014 Studienstiftung 2008-2014
Scientific career
Fields	Magnetoreception Auditory science
Institutions	Center of Advanced European Studies and Research
Doctoral advisors	Hynek Burda
Other academic advisors	David Keays
Website	https://www.malkemper-lab.com/Contact/

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. 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 [1]. As well in 2014, he received an Ig Nobel Prize for his work on magnetoreception in dogs [2]. Furthermore, he provided support for the absence of magnetite magnetoreceptors in the inner ear [3]. Such receptors had been previously hypothesized at this location, because of the presence of iron rich hair organelles in the inner ear of birds.

References

1. 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.
2. "The Ig Nobel Prize Winners". Improbable Research. 2006-08-01. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
3. 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.