Brent Young is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland.  He holds the position of Chair in Food Process Engineering and is Director of the Industrial Information and Control Centre (I2C2).  He is a previous Head of Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. 

Brent was previously an Associate Professor in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary (1998-2005) and a Lecturer in Chemical Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (1991-1998). He has also held prestigious visiting positions including an NSERC at Calgary (1995), an Erskine at Canterbury (2005) and a Gledden at Western Australia (2009).

He received his BE (1986) and PhD (1993) degrees in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Canterbury. He is a registered professional engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers United Kingdom and a Vice President of the Institute of Measurement and Control New Zealand. He has co-authored over 200 refereed publications including the book "A Real-time Approach to Process Control", published by John Wiley (2nd Edition, 2006).

He was Engineers Australia John A. Brodie medallist for the best paper in the discipline of chemical engineering presented at CHEMECA for 2008 and 2009. In 2008 he also received the NZ Waste Water Association Conference best modelling paper award. In 2007 he was principal control consultant to MWH NZ responsible for their Association of Consulting Engineers NZ Award.

Brent's teaching, research and practice centre on process modelling, simulation, control and design.

He is actively involved in applied research and industrial consulting and has taught and practiced in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Responsibilities:
Director, Industrial Information and Control Centre (http://www.auckland.ac.nz/i2c2)

Committee/Professional groups/Services:
- National Board Chair, SCENZ IChemE in NZ

Qualifications:
BE(Hons), PhD, GradCert Higher Ed

Areas of Expertise:
- Process simulation and control (in food especially dairy, light metals, oil and gas, wastewater).
- Process development and design (in novel, bio and food processes).

Media Keywords:
Process simulation and control in dairy, Food processes - development and design, Simulation and control in food processes, Process and simulation control in gas, Process simulation and control in oil, Process design and development, Process simulation and control in wastewater, Light metals