Professor Ben Young is Vice President (Student and Global Affairs) and Chair Professor of Steel Structures of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Professor Young oversees the institutional policies and plans related to student development and culture promotion as well as the global engagement endeavours in educational initiatives involving the establishment of partnership with leading universities and strategic partners all over the world.
Professor Young is well acquainted with academic research and also actively serves on important academic panels in various government agencies and non-governmental organisations. Professor Young was one of the code writers for the “Hong Kong Code of Practice for the Structural Use of Steel” published by the Buildings Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
Professor Young has been elected as the Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). His research interests include cold-formed steel structures, testing and design of steel structures, high strength steel structures, stainless steel structures, aluminium structures, structural stability, fire resistance of metal structures and engineering education. He is currently a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research, ELSEVIER. He is also serving as a member of editorial boards for several SCI indexed journals. He has published over 700 international journal and conference papers, of which over 400 are SCI indexed journal papers. He has an h-index of 72 in Scopus.
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