Dr Maria Carmen Romano

Maria-Carmen is a physicist by training, who has developed new mathematical methods to analyse fundamental phenomena arising in complex systems due to interactions.
She became interested in systems biology because she was fascinated by the variety of dynamical phenomena present in fundamental biological mechanisms, and how nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics can help unravel them. Maria-Carmen is currently involved in several collaborative systems biology projects, including the CRISP (combinatorial responses in stress pathways in yeast) project in collaboration with scientists at the University of Aberdeen and Imperial College, and in two projects to model translation in yeast (BBSRC and SULSA funded), in collaboration with scientists from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh. She was previously at the University of Potsdam, Germany.