I am a Professor of Biological Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh University. I'm also a member of SynthSys, Edinburgh's Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology.
My research focuses on biological and soft condensed matter physics, using simulations, theory and experiments. In particular, I work on microbe-environment interactions - how single-celled organisms such as bacteria survive and grow in complex and changing environments. I am especially interested in how bacterial populations are inhibited by, and evolve resistance to, antibiotics, and how nutrient-cycling microbial ecosystems establish themselves and maintain their function.
You can find me at:
Room 2507, James Clerk Maxwell Building
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
+44 131 6517197
rosalind.allen@ed.ac.uk
14/11/2018
Check out the review article "Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide", by myself and Bartek Waclaw, that has just appeared in Reports on Progress in Physics!
03/09/2018
Welcome to new PhD student Freya Bull!
23/07/2018
Welcome to summer student Kate Keddie, who will be working with us on growing biofilms in our new reactor!