The Rockefeller University
1230 York Ave, #212
New York, NY 10065, USA

Daniel Andor

Tel: +1 212 327 8186
dandor @ rockefeller.edu

Work

2005– The Rockefeller University, New York Postdoctoral Associate in the laboratories of Dr James Hudspeth, Professor of Sensory Neuroscience, and Dr Marcelo Magnasco, Professor of Mathematical Physics.
2000–2001 University of Cambridge, Jesus College Teaching assistant and supervisor for first-year physics.
2000 J.P. Morgan Futures & Options Research Intern. 10 weeks. Mathematical modeling and implementation of new daily computer-generated reports to be used by people in trading and sales. Undertook an independent project to asses volatility across futures markets.
1999 University of Cambridge High Performance Computing Facility Computational Scientist. 2 months. Optimising protein folding simulations and DNA sequence analysis programs for the Hitachi SR2201 massively parallel supercomputer and its HARP-1E pseudo-vectorizing processor.
1998 Cavendish Astrophysics Computational Scientist. 2 months. Implemented a new type of gas particle as part of the novel simulation of the interstellar medium in a galaxy simulation.
1995 EIDOS plc. Software Engineer, London. 5 months. Programming of video compression tools and a GUI to go with it.

Education

2000–2005 University of Cambridge, Biological Physics Group
PhD, thesis title: Energy transport, reflections and noise in the active cochlea
Funded by an EPSRC Scholarship. Supervisor: Dr Thomas Duke.
2001–2002 Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholarship at Harvard and MIT
Weitz Lab in experimental soft condensed matter, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School
1996–2000 University of Cambridge, Jesus College
MSci Natural Sciences: Physics. Graduated with First Class honors.
1987–1995 The Purcell School of Music, London
Piano, trombone, composition and conducting.

Publications

Journals

D. Andor-Ardó, A. J. Hudspeth, M. O. Magnasco & O. Piro
Modeling the resonant release of synaptic transmitter by hair cells as an example of biological oscillators with cooperative steps
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 2019-2024 (2010). [PDF 391kB]

A. Nagiel, S. H. Patel, D. Andor-Ardó & A. J. Hudspeth
Activity-independent specification of synaptic targets in the posterior lateral line of the larval zebrafish
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 21948-21953 (2009). [PDF 3.4MB]

G. Li, E. Keen, D. Andor-Ardó, A. J. Hudspeth & H. von Gersdorff
The Unitary Event Underlying Multiquantal EPSCs at a Hair Cell's Ribbon Synapse
Journal of Neuroscience 29, 7558-7568 (2009). [PDF 3.4MB]

A. Nagiel, D. Andor-Ardó & A. J. Hudspeth
Specificity of afferent synapses onto plane-polarized hair cells in the posterior lateral line of the zebrafish
Journal of Neuroscience 28, 8442-8453 (2008). [PDF 644kB]

V. D. Gordon, M. T. Valentine, M. L. Gardel, D. Andor-Ardó, S. Dennison, A. A. Bogdanov, D. A. Weitz & T. S. Deisboeck
Measuring the mechanical stress induced by an expanding multicellular tumor system: a case study
Experimental Cell Research 289, 58-66 (2003). [PDF 362kB]

F. Jülicher, D. Andor & T. Duke
The physical basis of two-tone interference in hearing
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 9080-9085 (2001). [PDF 382kB]

Chapters and Proceedings

D. Andor, T. Duke, A. Simha & F. Jülicher
Wave Propagation by Critical Oscillators.
In Auditory Mechanisms - Processes and Models, Proceedings of the Ninth International Mechanics of Hearing Workshop Portland, Oregon, 23-28 July 2005 eds A.L. Nuttall et al. (2006).

T. Duke, D. Andor & F. Jülicher
Physical basis of interference effects in hearing.
Ann. Henri Poincaré 4, 589-591 (2003).

T. Duke, D. Andor & F. Jülicher
Two-tone interference caused by active amplification.
In Biophysics of the Cochlea, ed. A. W. Gummer, 559-560 (2003).

Awards & Leadership positions

2004–2005 President, Jesus College Graduate Society
2001 Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard University and MIT
2000–2001 Music Director, Sforzando Brass
2000–2004 EPSRC PhD Scholarship
2000–2003 On the highly prestigious “shortlist” of the Society for the Promotion of New Music
1997, 1999 Isaac Newton Trust Bursaries
1999 Lord Renfrew Prize for the “most significant contribution to music life of Jesus College”
1998/10 UK Representative, EDS Global Challenge '98, US Competition
1998/3 First Prize, EDS Great Minds, UK Competition
1997–1999 President, Cambridge University New Music Society
1997–2004 Conductor, Jesus College Music Society

Research Interests

Auditory systems: Biomechanics and energy flow, active nonlinear response and its coupling to neurological coding.
Modeling biological systems: How do biomechanical systems and biological networks develop to be so robust to environmental and thermodynamic fluctuations?
Nonlinear dynamical systems: Transients, response to noise and steady state limit cycle behaviour.
Probability theory: Bayesian statistics, model comparison, Maximum Entropy deconvolution. Using continuous approximations and Monte Carlo for massively high-dimensional problems. How do we bridge the gap between ‘data processing’ and ‘machine learning’?
Numerical methods: Stochastic differential equations (by direct simulation or Fokker-Planck approaches), Monte Carlo, FDM, and basis-function expansion (FEM) techniques.
Viscoelasticity of equilibrium and non-equilibrium biological systems. Microrheological techniques to measure stress fields in bio-gels; particle-tracking and visualisation.

Languages

English, Hungarian: bilingual
French, German: working knowledge

References

Available on request.


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