Roderic D. M. Page

Roderic Dugald Morton Page (born 1962) is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several books.^[4] As of 2015^[update] he is professor at the University of Glasgow and was editor of the journal Systematic Biology until the end of 2007.^[5] His main interests are in phylogenetics,^[6] evolutionary biology and bioinformatics.^[7][8]

Rod Page
Rod Page
Born	Roderic Dugald Morton Page 1962 (age 62–63) Auckland, New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealand
Citizenship	New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Auckland (PhD)
Known for	Molecular evolution : a phylogenetic approach[1]
Awards	Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society 1998
Scientific career
Fields	Biodiversity informatics Phyloinformatics[2]
Institutions	University of Glasgow University of Oxford University of Auckland Natural History Museum
Thesis	Panbiogeography: a cladistic approach (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Brian McArdle
Doctoral students	Vincent Smith[3]
Website	iphylo.blogspot.co.uk taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html

Education

Page was born in Auckland and earned a PhD in 1990 from the University of Auckland.^[9]

Career and research

Page is known for his work on co-speciation and in particular the development of bioinformatic software such as TreeMap,^[10] RadCon,^[11][12] and TreeView.^{[2][13][14][15]} Page is a co-author with Eddie Holmes of Molecular Evolution: A phylogenetic approach^[1] and editor of Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution.^[16]

Awards and honours

He received the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1998,^[17] and the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge joint first prize in 2018.^[18]