Education
Steel studied at the University of Canterbury, earning a bachelor"s degree in 1982, a masters in 1983, and a degree in journalism in 1985. He then moved to Massey University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1989.
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Mike Steel
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He is known for his research on modeling and reconstructing evolutionary trees. He joined the Canterbury faculty in 1994.
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Steel won the Hamilton Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1994. This prize is given annually to a New Zealand mathematician for work done within five years of a Doctor of Philosophy In 1999 he won the research award of the New Zealand Mathematical Society "for his fundamental contributions to the mathematical understanding of phylogeny, demonstrating a capacity for hard creative work in combinatorics and statistics and an excellent understanding of the biological implications of his results." He became a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2003.
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New Zealand