BEAR Cloud Speaker

Dr John Owen
Head of Research Support

Dr John Owen began his career as a research physicist before moving to IT Services at the University of Birmingham where he has held several positions in both technology and customer support roles. Latterly he was ‘Head of IT Facilities Management’ with a brief that covered servers, storage and data centres.

He has maintained his interest in the research activities of the University and has driven an expansion in IT resources to support research. This resulted in the creation of a new IT ‘Research Support Section’ last summer, which he now heads. The Section’s activities focus around high performance computing, big data management and of course BEAR Cloud. Collectively these services are known as ‘BEAR’ – the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (www.birmingham.ac.uk/bear).

Click here to view the slideshow from Dr John Owen's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.
Click here to view a video of Dr John Owen's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.