Born and educated in South Wales, Owen obtained his BSc in Particle Physics and Cosmology at Swansea University. He carried out his Masters in Research at the Materials Engineering department at Swansea University, staying to obtain a PhD on the Combination of processes effecting fracture in ferritic steel. Owen is now a Senior Lecturer in the School of Automotive Engineering and is leading its research group in vehicle dynamics.

His current research interests are in motorcycle dynamics and simulation, integrated data acquisition and alternative fuels testing and simulation. His other interests include motorcycle racing, extreme sports, music, cosmology, photography and computing.
Current Research Interests: Motorcycle Dynamics, Motorcycle Control and Simulation, Data Acquisition, Thermodynamics and Alternative Fuels

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Selected Publications:

• Williams O., Randle V., Spellward P. and Cowen, J., (2000) Grain boundary and fracture surface analysis of Fe-P-C steel, Mat. Sci. Tech., 16, 1372-1375.

• Randle V., Davies P. and Williams G.O., (2001) Crystallographic analysis of surfaces after brittle fracture in ferritic steels, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Fracture, (eds. Ravi-Chandar K, Karihaloo B L, Kishi T, Ritchie R O and Yokobori A T), Elsevier Science, (on CD, paper no. 407OR).

• Williams O., PhD Thesis, University of Wales, Swansea (2003)

• Williams G.O., Randle V., Cowan J. and Spellward S. The role of grain boundary misorientation and phosphorus content on grain growth and intergranular fracture in iron-carbon-phosphorus alloys, Journal of Microscopy, March 2004, Vol 213. No. 3, pp. 321-327

• Williams G.O. and Randle V., Grain boundary crystallography in two Fe-C-P alloys. Mater. Sci. Tech, May 2004, Vol 20, No. 5, pp. 599-604