A Chair in Food Process Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland
Brent Young is currently a Chair in Food and Process Systems Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. He is also Director of the Industrial Information and Control Centre at the University of Auckland.
Brent obtained his Bachelor and PhD degrees in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Canterbury. Brent is a Chartered Engineer, a Senior Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a Fellow of both the Institution of Chemical Engineers UK and Engineering New Zealand.
Brent’s career includes prior academic appointments at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Calgary.
Brent’s research, teaching and practice is focussed on digital twins, modelling, simulation and control applied to sustainable development and optimisation of feed and energy process systems.