Elizabeth Allman

Elizabeth Allman is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alaska. Her research focuses on developing and analyzing phylogenetic inference methods using interdisciplinary approaches combining mathematics, statistics, biology, and computer science.

Her work centers on evolutionary history modeling through the Multispecies Coalescent Model and network extensions, with recent publications in bioinformatics and computational biology. She has mentored graduate students and postdocs at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) on phylogenetic network construction and statistical genetics.

Her research group has developed hypothesis testing frameworks for the MSC model and implemented distance-based network construction algorithms. Algebraic techniques for parameter identifiability in protein substitution models also represent a key area of her computational biology contributions.