By Royal Appointment; GO GREEN: Newcastle's changing face Sponsored by Environment Agency

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), July 24, 2007

GO GREEN'S very own Dr Green has been celebrating after being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Paul Younger, HSBC Professor of Energy and Environment, has joined Professor Trevor Page, Newcastle University Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Relations and Research, as two of the 30 pioneering engineers elected this year to the Royal Academy of Engineering. Professor Younger is an environmental engineer who directs the highly-successful research group known as HERO (Hydrogeochem-ical Engineering Research & Outreach), the activities of which won Newcastle University the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education last year.

He is regarded as one of the world's foremost experts in the remediation of pollution associated with mining.

Last summer he was appointed Energy and Environment Science Theme Leader within the Newcastle Science City initiative, and is currently leading a North East consortium bid to host the UK's new Energy Technologies Institute, an initiative with a potential budget of pounds 1 billion.

His personal research is also at the forefront of clean energy technologies.

Professor Younger is currently leading a major EU-funded technology transfer project on management of conflicted natural resources in Latin America, and is now launching an EPSRC-funded programme of collaborative professional development of young environmental engineers in the UK and India, which has a focus on improving the environmental performance of coal extraction and use in the sub-continent.

He said: "This is an honour I never imagined I would receive, so I'm absolutely ecstatic. If I'm honest it's a bit scary to be elected to such an august circle of experts."

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PRIDE: Prof Paul Younger