Dr. Michael Mackey

Michael C. Mackey, Department of Physiology and Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, is a distinguished applied mathematician who has made significant contributions to differential- delay equations and to a spectrum of mathematical topics in physiology and physics. He has made seminal contributions to biomathematics and biophysics, especially in the areas of membrane ion transport, dynamical diseases, cell replication, and the dynamics of neural systems. Mackey proposed the "Mackey-Glass" delay differential equation for deterministic chaos and introduced the concept of "dynamical diseases." His widely cited book (with L. Glass), From Clocks to Chaos: the Rhythms of Life, showed the biological community how nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory can be used to help understand physiological systems.