Rate My Professor Adelle Coster

Professor Coster's research expertise lies in mathematical modelling, particularly in biomedicine and biology, utilizing dynamical systems analyses, stochastic modelling, and queueing theory. Her investigations cover the dynamics of fundamental protein-protein interactions and cellular processes, cellular glucose transport in response to insulin and the deleterious effects of insulin resistance and diabetes, dynamics of electrically excitable cells such as peripheral nerves and the cardiac pacemaker, geometrical morphological features of microfossils, and starch grains within edible plants for identification of contemporary and ancient grains. She has published 68 journal articles, 8 book chapters, 11 conference papers, and more. Key publications include "Accelerometry: providing an integrated, practical method for long-term, ambulatory monitoring of human movement" (Mathie, Coster et al., Physiological Measurement, 2004), "Classification of basic daily movements using a triaxial accelerometer" (Mathie, Celler, Lovell, Coster, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 2004), "Detection of daily physical activities using a triaxial accelerometer" (Mathie, Coster, Lovell, Celler, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 2003), "Impedance spectroscopy of interfaces, membranes and ultrastructures" (Coster, Chilcott, Coster, Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, 1996), and "Insulin increases cell surface GLUT4 levels by dose dependently discharging GLUT4 into a cell surface recycling pathway" (Govers, Coster, James, Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2004). In 2025, Professor Coster received the Bob Robertson Medal, the top honour from the Australian Society for Biophysics, recognizing her outstanding contributions to biophysics. Her work is highly influential, with over 5,300 citations on Google Scholar, advancing the fields of mathematical biology, cellular signalling, and physiological dynamics.