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Siew-Young Quek

Siew-Young Quek
AwardsFellow of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland, University of Putra Malaysia

Siew-Young Quek is a New Zealand academic and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in bioactive and functional food ingredients, lipid science and food processing.

Academic career

Quek earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours in biochemistry from the University of Malaysia, and then completed a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham in 1999.[1][2] Quek spent four years lecturing at the University of Putra Malaysia, before joining the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2004, rising to full professor in 2020.[3][1] Quek has been a visiting scholar at Guelph Food Research Center in Canada, the University of Massachusetts and Xiamen University, China.[1] She is the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Future Foods.[4] Quek is part of the Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence.[2]

One focus of Quek's research is functional foods, and bioactive ingredients, and methods to stabilise and deliver functional ingredients, including co- and micro-encapsulation. She also works on lipid science, and the processing and safety of food.[5]

Awards and honours

Quek won a gold medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Invention in 2005.[2]

Quek won a University of Auckland Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007. Quek won a Gold Medal at the University of Putra Malaysia's University Invention & Research Competition in 2002, and won the 2002 National Invention and Innovation Competition on Science & Technology, run by the Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment of Malaysia.[1]

In 2012 she was made Fellow of New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology.[6]

In 2014–15, Quek was Shanghai Outstanding Overseas Scholar, and in 2017, she was the overseas expert in food science in the 100-Talent Programme of Hunan Province.[1][2]

Quek is a Guest Professor of Jiangnan University and the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.[7] From 2016 to 2021 she was an honorary professor of Jilin University.[1]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f University of Auckland. "Academic profile: Siew-Young Quek". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Prof. Siew Young Quek". riddet.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  3. ^ University of Auckland (2020). "2020 University of Auckland Calendar" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Professor Siew Young Quek, PhD – Editorial Board – Future Foods – Journal – Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  5. ^ University of Auckland. "Academic profile: Siew-Young Quek Research". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  6. ^ "NZIFST – List of Fellows". nzifst.org.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Our People – China Research Collaboration Centres". crcc.nz. Retrieved 12 November 2023.