Siew-Young Quek
{{Short description|Professor of chemical sciences in New Zealand}}
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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.{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |title=Academic profile: Siew-Young Quek |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/sy-quek |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Prof. Siew Young Quek |url=https://riddet.ac.nz/about-us?view=article&id=105&catid=9&tmpl=template |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=riddet.ac.nz}} 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.{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |date=2020 |title=2020 University of Auckland Calendar |url=https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/calendar/docs/2020Calendar_191020.pdf}} Quek has been a visiting scholar at Guelph Food Research Center in Canada, the University of Massachusetts and Xiamen University, China. She is the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Future Foods.{{Cite web |title=Professor Siew Young Quek, PhD – Editorial Board – Future Foods – Journal – Elsevier |url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-foods/editorial-board/professor-siew-young-quek-phd |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=www.journals.elsevier.com}} Quek is part of the Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence.
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.{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |title=Academic profile: Siew-Young Quek Research |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/sy-quek/grants |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}
Awards and honours
Quek won a gold medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Invention in 2005.
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.
In 2012 she was made Fellow of New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology.{{Cite web |title=NZIFST – List of Fellows |url=https://nzifst.org.nz/page-18126 |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=nzifst.org.nz}}
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.
Quek is a Guest Professor of Jiangnan University and the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.{{Cite web |title=Our People – China Research Collaboration Centres |url=https://crcc.nz/crcc/food-protection/our-people/ |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=crcc.nz}} From 2016 to 2021 she was an honorary professor of Jilin University.
Selected works
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
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Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham
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