Professor Robyn Owens' fundamental research in computer science is of the highest quality, as is her collaborative application of this research to innovations that have led to major improvements in human health and wellbeing, nationally and internationally. She is recognised widely for her scholarship, for her productive collaboration with researchers and practitioners from other disciplines and for her leading contribution to system-wide excellence in research and research policy. She has an outstanding record of contributing her expertise to professional and wider community bodies and to advocacy in the technological sciences and engineering.