Professor R. Paul Young is a renowned engineering geophysicist.  He was previously Chair of UoT’s Department of Civil Engineering and holds the Keck Chair of Seismology and Rock Mechanics.  An outstanding scientist and teacher, Young was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007.  A native of Britain, Young was recruited to UoT in 2002 as the founding director of the Lassonde Institute for Engineering Geoscience, an international centre of excellence that draws on expertise across multiple disciplines.  As chair of Civil Engineering, he led the development of the department’s new framework for urban engineering, building cities that work for people. His leadership of the department was singled out for high praise by external reviewers in 2005 and 2006.  He was previously chair of Earth Sciences at the University of Liverpool and head of Earth Sciences at Keele University in the U.K.  He also established the Geomechanics and Rock Physics Laboratory at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.