Bethany Allen

I am a computational palaeobiologist, interested in understanding patterns and drivers of speciation and extinction on geological timescales.

My research focuses on understanding differences in biodiversity across large temporal and spatial scales. I am currently working on projects focusing on how landscape, climate, and biodiversity change are coupled in desert environments, and how best to infer changes in biodiversity through deep time, particularly working with data from the fossil record.

I completed my PhD at the University of Leeds in 2021, researching spatial patterns of diversity, speciation and extinction associated with the Permian-​Triassic mass extinction and subsequent prolonged biotic recovery.