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Malcolm A. MacIver is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering. His research integrates computational modeling, bio-inspired robotics, and neurobiology to study sensory systems and movement in animals. He leads the Center for Robotics and Biosystems and has contributed to groundbreaking work on the evolution of vertebrate sensory systems and climate policy communication.
Prof. MacIver holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Philosophy, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. His work spans interdisciplinary domains, including robotics, climate science communication, and vertebrate brain evolution.
His research has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (2009) and NSF Career Award (2009). He actively contributes to science communication through roles like Science Consultant for the National Academy of Science's Science Entertainment Exchange and as an organizer of international robotics symposiums.
In teaching, he instructs graduate courses in computational neuromechanics and undergraduate classes in neuroscience and Python programming for engineering. His lab's innovations include robotic systems modeling animal behavior and climate prediction market experiments influencing public policy support.
