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Brent Young is Senior Lecturer of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He received his B.E. (1986) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as a Chemical Engineer for Ravensdown Fertilizer Coop’s Super Phosphate Plant in Christchurch and developed a process model for the simulation of a rock phosphate grinding circuit. In 1991, he joined the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, as a lecturer, received tenure in 1994 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996, continuing his research in the areas of modelling and control of processes, particularly industrial processes. He was an Associate Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary from late 1998 to the end of 2005. He joined the University of Auckland in January 2006. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a member of a number of professional societies. His research is centered on the two major areas, process simulation and control, and process design and development – particularly the processing of carbonaceous substances.
