Jun Allard

Jun Allard is a Professor in Physics & Astronomy and Mathematics. His research is in developing mathematical models of cell and molecular biophysics, including fluid dynamics of immune cells, mechanics of the 3d genome, and signaling by intrinsically disordered proteins. He has served as former Director of Graduate Gateway Program in Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology (2017-2024) and former Executive Committee member and co-PI of the NSF Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate (2018-2022) at UC Irvine; has supervised 12 PhD students; and has received sole-PI funding and served on review panels for NIH and NSF. Allard earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of British Columbia.