Dr. Allen is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and in the Department of Pathology at The Ohio State University.  Her research specializes in spectroscopic instrumentation, sensing methodology, molecular organization, ion pairing, and hydration at aqueous interfaces with applications ranging from atmospheric and ocean surface chemistry to biophysics of the lung. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry at the University of California Irvine. She was recently awarded the 2022 American Chemical Society’s Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics for her seminal contributions toward the understanding of liquid surfaces.