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
27/11/2020
Congratulations to Freya Bull who has won the School prize for best 3rd year PhD student poster!
01/10/2020
Welcome to new postdoc Vijay Srinivasan! He will teach us a lot about mycobacterial cell biology and population dynamics!
22/09/2020
Congratulations to Ellen Young, who has passed her PhD viva!
15/09/2020
Welcome to our two new MPhys projects students Jamie McLauchlan and Balagardash Bashirov!