Stephen Smith, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Stephen Smith works on questions related to plant evolution, detecting and describing large scale patterns of evolution, examining differences in the rate of molecular evolution, morphological evolution, genomics, and geography. A great deal of this involves the development of new methods and new computational tools. Smith earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from Yale University, and his B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. He teaches Evolution, Phylogenetic Methods and Theory, and his research areas include Phylogenetics, computational evolutionary biology, biogeography, and phyloinformatics.
