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
22/04/2019
Congratulations to Rebecca Brouwers, who has just submitted her PhD thesis!
25/03/2019
Patrick Sinclair, Martin Carballo and my paper "Growth-dependent drug susceptibility can prevent or enhance spatial expansion of a bacterial population" has just been accepted for publication in Physical Biology!
05/03/2019
Congratulations to Dan Taylor, who has just submitted his PhD thesis!
04/03/2019
Welcome to senior honours project student Calum Brown, who will work with me and Elin Lilja on biofilm experiments.