Dr. Macedonia is a maternal-fetal medicine physician and genetics expert, and adjunct faculty at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. A retired Army Colonel, he served as a DARPA program manager, NIH researcher, and senior government scientist — a career spanning the intersection of medicine, computer science, defense technology, and fundamental research.
An active explorer (Fellow, The Explorers Club '96), Dr. Macedonia has dove the wreck of the Titanic in the Mir submersible, conducted telemedicine research on Everest with the E3 Expeditions, and worked in environments from the Amazon jungle to high-altitude desert. He is recognized as an expert in expedition medicine across Earth's most demanding terrain.
Dr. Macedonia developed Kosmoplex Theory as part of a larger pursuit of what he considers the single greatest challenge in science: how does life arise? How does information pack and unpack and, in between, become life? This question unifies his work as a physician who delivers life into the world every day, an information theorist, and a government scientist — and was the foundation of his most prominent named program at DARPA, Biochronicity. Kosmoplex Theory is where that pursuit led: a mathematical framework deriving the fundamental constants of physics from first principles with zero free parameters, suggesting that the boundary between living and non-living is not a boundary at all but a threshold of computational complexity in the same discrete geometric substrate that generates the constants of nature.
Faculty Email: macedoni AT umich.edu