Ross Young

Biography

Appointed to the University in August 2021 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) Professor Ross Young has held a number of executive academic roles in clinical and academic health and in medical research. This includes Chair of Trauma Rehabilitation at the Jamieson Trauma Institute, Metro North Health, Executive Dean, Faculty of Health and Executive Director of the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He is committed to social justice and maximising health outcomes for all people, particularly the most vulnerable in our communities and to the use of novel digital and technological solutions to important health and societal challenges.

Commercial collaboration and patent activity have included licensing gene chip technology and Professor Young also has Board representation in the academic, community and health sectors. He has contributed to health leadership development through mentoring and strategy development in large health and research entities.

Research

Professor Young is a Clinical Psychologist with research interests in the integration of psychological and biological risk factors in mental illness. Over the last decade this has focused on gene regulation and stress using epigenetics. His research includes work in substance misuse, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, mood disorders and more broadly in behavioural medicine. Professor Young has over 280 published book chapters and papers in genetic, medical, psychiatric and psychological journals and has supervised over 50 PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows. His work includes complex research project management, including clinical trials and his career research funding is A$20 M.

Awards and memberships

Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fellow of the Australasian Association of Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy

Member of the Australian Psychological Society