Summary
Owain Kenway is a seasoned research computing leader with 12 years’ experience building and operating HPC and platform technologies for UCL, now heading Research and Development (Platform Technologies) within ARC. He combines a strong academic background—a PhD in Chemistry and an MSc in HPC—with hands-on expertise designing, deploying and supporting university-scale HPC services and researcher-facing tools. Over more than a decade at UCL he progressed from user support to strategic leadership, pairing day-to-day operational knowledge with program-level delivery. Known for translating complex research requirements into practical, scalable platforms, he champions enabling researchers to adopt new tools and workflows. An advocate for reproducible, performant science computing, he brings both technical depth and institutional understanding to bridge research and infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
MSc HPC, MSc HPC at The University of Edinburgh
University College London