Rosalind Allen
Professor R Allen
- Position
- Professor
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 2507
- Email: rosalind.allen [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 7197
- Personal home page
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Rosalind is a member of the following School research institute and research areas:
Research institute
Research areas
Research interests
Dr. Allen's research focuses on biological and soft condensed matter physics, using simulations, theory and experiments. She is particularly interested in applying ideas and methods from physics to the important emerging biological question of how microbial populations develop, interact and function as ecosystems. Dr. Allen also contributes to the development of advanced computer simulation methods, to our understanding of the kinetics of protein aggregation, and to understanding the behaviour of non-equilibrium active matter.
I jointly teach the level 11 course Biological Physics.
Rosalind currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
Rosalind has featured in the following recent School news stories:
- Microbes dictate regime shifts causing anoxia in lakes and seas
- Post-docs sought for Biological Physics research
- €1.8m grant awarded for research into bacterial resistance
- Computational study sheds light on how early metabolism might have evolved
- Modelling of bacteria sheds light on drug-resistance
Recent publications
- , Reports on Progress in Physics
- , Physical Biology, 14, 6
- Assembly of Microbial Communities in Replicate Nutrient-Cycling Model Ecosystems Follows Divergent Trajectories, Leading to Alternate Stable States DOI, Environmental Microbiology, 19, p. 3374-3386