Distinguished ProfessorMike Steel
International Student Co-ordinator
Jack Erskine 623
Phone: +6433692153
Internal Phone: 92153
Qualifications & Memberships
Research Interests
Research interests are applications of discrete mathematics (combinatorics, graph theory) and probability theory to contemporary problems in biology.
Recent Publications
- Herbst L., Li H. and Steel M. (2019) Quantifying the accuracy of ancestral state prediction in a phylogenetic tree under maximum parsimony.. Journal of Mathematical Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-019-01330-x.
- Hoppe A., Türpitz S. and Steel M. (2019) Species notions that combine phylogenetic trees and phenotypic partitions. Journal of Mathematical Biology 78(1-2): 117-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-018-1269-z.
- Hordijk W., Steel M. and Kauffman SA. (2019) Molecular Diversity Required for the Formation of Autocatalytic Sets.. Life (Basel) 9(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life9010023.
- Huber KT., Moulton V. and Steel M. (2019) Phylogenetic Flexibility via Hall-Type Inequalities and Submodularity.. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 81(2): 598-617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-018-0419-1.
- Pons JC., Semple C. and Steel M. (2019) Tree-based networks: characterisations, metrics, and support trees. Journal of Mathematical Biology 78(4): 899-918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-018-1296-9.