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

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• Yun Ping Neo; Sudip Ray; Jianyong Jin; Marija Gizdavic-Nikolaidis; Michel K Nieuwoudt; Dongyan Liu; Siew-Young Quek (17 September 2012). "Encapsulation of food grade antioxidant in natural biopolymer by electrospinning technique: a physicochemical study based on zein-gallic acid system". Food Chemistry. 136 (2): 1013–1021. doi:10.1016/J.FOODCHEM.2012.09.010. ISSN 0308-8146. PMID 23122157. Wikidata Q85347716.
• Karl Fraser; Scott J Harrison; Geoff A Lane; Don Otter; Yacine Hemar; Siew-Young Quek; Susanne Rasmussen (19 March 2012). "Non-targeted analysis of tea by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography and high resolution mass spectrometry". Food Chemistry. 134 (3): 1616–1623. doi:10.1016/J.FOODCHEM.2012.03.045. ISSN 0308-8146. PMID 25005990. Wikidata Q45357390.
• Anusooya S Sivam; Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse; Geoffrey Waterhouse; Siew-Young Quek; Conrad O. Perera (1 April 2011). "Physicochemical properties of bread dough and finished bread with added pectin fiber and phenolic antioxidants". Journal of Food Science. 76 (3): H97–H107. doi:10.1111/J.1750-3841.2011.02086.X. ISSN 0022-1147. PMID 21535837. Wikidata Q44109620.
• Karl Fraser; Geoff A Lane; Don Otter; Scott J Harrison; Siew-Young Quek; Yacine Hemar; Susanne Rasmussen (24 May 2013). "Monitoring tea fermentation/manufacturing by direct analysis in real time (DART) mass spectrometry". Food Chemistry. 141 (3): 2060–2065. doi:10.1016/J.FOODCHEM.2013.05.054. ISSN 0308-8146. PMID 23870928. Wikidata Q45300360.
• Coralia V Garcia; Ralph J Stevenson; Ross G Atkinson; Robert A Winz; Siew-Young Quek (13 October 2012). "Changes in the bound aroma profiles of 'Hayward' and 'Hort16A' kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) during ripening and GC-olfactometry analysis". Food Chemistry. 137 (1–4): 45–54. doi:10.1016/J.FOODCHEM.2012.10.002. ISSN 0308-8146. PMID 23199989. Wikidata Q45147447.