Percy Hei Chun Ho is a third year graduate student 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. He is also currently a teaching fellow of GENED 1105: Can We Know our Past? for the 2024 fall semester.

Percy specializes in zooarchaeology and biomolecular archaeology. His work involves the recovery and analysis of genes and proteins from archaeological remains to understand early animal use and management practices in Central and Inner Asia. His primary research interests include the domestication, exploitation, and translocation of animals, the emergence of breeding and herding strategies, the spatial and temporal shifts in pastoralist economies and livestock traits, as well as the appearance of food-related technologies such as dairying on the Eastern Eurasian Steppe. 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 markers 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.