Siew-Young Quek

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. 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. Quek is part of the Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence.

Awards and honours Quek won a gold medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Invention in 2005.

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. From 2016 to 2021 she was an honorary professor of Jilin University.

Selected works