Enrico Coen

Rico Coen
Born
Enrico Sandro Coen

(1957-09-29) 29 September 1957
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlant biology
Institutions
ThesisThe dynamics of multigene family evolution in Drosophila (1982)
Doctoral advisorGabriel Dover
Websiterico-coen.jic.ac.uk

Enrico Sandro Coen CBE FRS (born 29 September 1957) is a British biologist who studies the mechanisms used by plants to create complex and varied flower structures. Coen's research has aimed to define the developmental rules that govern flower and leaf growth at both the cellular level and throughout the whole plant to better understand evolution. He has combined molecular, genetic and imaging studies with population and ecological models and computational analysis to understand flower development.