Rate My Professor Simon Ho

Professor Simon Ho is a Professor of Molecular Evolution in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. He co-founded the Molecular Ecology, Evolution, and Phylogenomics (MEEP) Laboratory in 2011 and has supervised more than 40 Honours and PhD research students. Ho's research specializations encompass molecular clocks, evolutionary rates, phylogenomics, genomic evolution, and molecular ecology. He applies molecular, genomic, and computational approaches to investigate evolution across diverse organisms and temporal scales. Ho has published over 260 scientific articles, including landmark contributions such as 'Relaxed phylogenetics and dating with confidence' (2006), 'PartitionFinder: Combined selection of partitioning schemes and substitution models for phylogenetic analyses' (2012), 'Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds' (2014), 'Time dependency of molecular rate estimates and systematic overestimation of recent divergence times' (2005), and 'Accounting for calibration uncertainty in phylogenetic estimation of evolutionary divergence times' (2009). He also edited the book The Molecular Evolutionary Clock.