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Rowena Peake

Rowena Peake

Leverhulme Mechanics of Life & BiPAS CDT Manager

Biography

She is the manager of the Mechanics of Life Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme and the Biological Physics Across Scales Centre for Doctoral Training. She is the first point of contact for students, supervisors and all internal and external stakeholders across the programmes. She also supports the Programme Directors on all matters related to delivery on the programmes, including student recruitment, training, cohort building, EDI and financial management.

Rowena joined King's in 2015 and held the role of Programme Administrator, then Senior Programme Officer, in the Department of Physics before moving to the NMES Faculty Office to oversee PGR support as the Faculty PGR Coordinator. Prior to joining King's she worked for an international student foundation programme based at the University of Amsterdam and in education and research support at the University of Queensland. 

The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences is based in the heart of London with a long tradition of world-leading research and teaching in physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering. With nearly 5,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and around 350 academic and research staff, our ambition is to inspire, educate and innovate - fostering the next generation of scientists and future leaders.