About Me
Hi! I'm Owen Bowdler (They/Them), a computational materials scientist currently in the final year of a PhD at UNSW. You'll also find me going by Aewyn Bowdler elsewhere - take your pick!
I'm an inveterate tinkerer with somewhat of a passion for low-level hardware design and system optimisation. (Which may lead to me regularly getting carried away with profiling performance & tweaking configurations well into the early hours of the morning.)
Science
Computational Materials Science PhD student @ UNSW. Researching Semiconductors, Ferroelectrics & Hydrogen production.
Computers
:D
Economics
Ask my opinions at your own peril! (I may end up talking a lot about obscure minutiae)
Education
As a consequence of being interested in both teaching & computers, I've been dragged into examining the impact of LLMs on education in my spare time. (Have to say, not a big fan of them)
Modding
I've been the Community Lead at spongepowered.org for over a decade now (2014+), having previously been involved with the Spoutcraft project since 2011.
Queer?
Very!
Contacts
My main social presence is on Mastodon, but you may also find me at these locations: