Timothy F. H. Allen (born July 6, 1942) is a British botanist and former professor of Botany and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Timothy Allen was born in 1942 in South Croydon, Surrey, U.K, and since the 1970s has been a permanent U.S. resident.
[2] Starting in 1964, Allen worked for four years as a demonstrator at the School of Plant Biology of the University College North Wales.
In 1988–89 he was a visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology and Cybernetic Systems at the San Jose State University.
[4] Timothy Allen's research interests are in the fields: theory of complex systems and ecology, in particular hierarchy theory and problems of scale; epistemology for biological systems; resource use and biosocial dynamics; narrative in science.