He is one of the members of the "Dutch School of Dynamic Systems" who proposed to apply time-series data to study second language development along with de Bot, van Geert, and Verspoor.
Lowie obtained his PhD degree at the Centre of Language and Cognition, Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen on 14 January 1998.
He was supervised by his future colleague at the University of Groningen, Cornelis de Bot.
[4] In a 2012 article he discussed the pedagogical implications of Dynamic Systems Theory approaches to second language development.
He suggested that only an approach that values the relevance of variability can capture the crucial time dimension of development.