Dr Thomas Owens

Biography

Dr Owens is the co-editor of the book on Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principle, Methods and Application, IGI Global, USA. He was the project coordinator of the European Commission IST FP5 STREP Project CONFLUENT, of the IST FP6 Integrated Project INSTINCT, and of the FP6 SSA Project PARTAKE. He is currently Project Manager of the IST PSP Project DTV4All, see www.psp-dtv4all.orgAs well as supervising many PhD students, he has extensive experience in a very broad range of administrative and academic roles including undergraduate courses director, postgraduate course director, chairman of MSc examination boards, and elected member of Senate. In 1995/96 he acted as a teaching quality assessor of teaching in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in three Welsh universities for the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, and in 2007-9 as an external examiner of PhD students. In 2011-13 he was President of the European Advisory Board of the Institute of Studies Brazil Europe, a joint EU Brazil funded initiative. He was Visiting Professor, School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China, 8th of September, 2012 to 23rd of September, 2012.