Professor Rachel Bearon

About

Professor Rachel Bearon joined King’s College London in Jan 2024 as Executive Dean of the Faculty of NMES, and Professor of Mathematical Biology. As Executive Dean, she provides overall leadership to the Faculty, and is a member of the University Executive. Her research focuses on applying mathematics to the spatial and temporal dynamics of biological systems, ranging from bacterial chemotaxis, cancer cell motility and phytoplankton in turbulence, to cell-signalling pathways, intracellular protein dynamics and drug transport. Rachel studied for her undergraduate and PhD degrees in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. This was followed by post-doctoral research in the department of Biological Oceanography at the University of Washington, Seattle. From 2005-2023 she progressed from Le