Percy Hei Chun Ho is a third year PhD Candidate in the Archaeology Program at the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is a member of the Warinner Lab for Ancient Biomolecule Research at Harvard, and a guest researcher at the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Percy specializes in zooarchaeology and biomolecular archaeology. His work involves the recovery and analysis of genes and proteins from archaeological remains to understand human-animal relationships in Central and Inner Asia. His primary research interests include the exploitation and translocation of herd animals, the diachronic process of adopting pastoralist economies and selecting for livestock traits, the appearance of food-related technologies (e.g. dairying), and the role of hunted animals among herding societies. His current projects include the investigation of population structure and dispersal of ancient domesticated sheep in Central and Inner Asia, and the development of novel Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) peptide biomarkers for Cervid species.

Percy received his BA from University of Exeter and MSc from University of Oxford. He has extensive experience working in radiocarbon and ancient DNA laboratories in the United Kingdom, Germany, and South Korea. He has also participated in various archaeological excavations in the United States of America, Kazakhstan, and Morocco.