James E. Owen is an astrophysicist at Imperial College London who studies exoplanets and accretion disks.
He then undertook his Ph.D. at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Cathie Clarke.
[4] In 2017 he joined Imperial College, first as a Royal Society University Research Fellow[5] and is currently a senior lecturer in exoplanet physics.
[6] In collaboration with Yanqin Wu, James Owen studied the photoevaporation of exoplanet atmospheres, predicting the existence of the Small planet radius gap in 2013, four years before its confirmation.
[7] In 2019 he was awarded an ERC starting grant to further his studies of exoplanet atmospheres.