College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences Hires Several New Leaders

Dr. Greg Brown will serve as the Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences department head. Brown joins the campus from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland, where he taught in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management. He earned his undergraduate and master’s in business administration (MBA) degrees from Northern Arizona University, and his doctorate degree in environmental planning and policy from the University of Idaho.

 

Dr. Peter Livingston, P.E., will serve as the BioResource and Agricultural Engineering department head. He most recently was at the University of Arizona, where he was an associate professor of practice in their Agricultural and Biosystem Engineering Department, as well as Bosque Engineering, where he is a managing partner. He earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Arizona, his master’s degree in agricultural engineering from Colorado State University, and his doctorate degree in biosystems engineering from the University of Arizona.

 

Dr. Johan (Job) Ubbink will serve as the Food Science and Nutrition Department Head. Most recently, he was at ETH Zurich’s Department of Health Sciences and Technology as an instructor, the University of Bristol’s School of Physics as an honorary fellow, and The Mill Food Concept and Physical Design firm in Switzerland as a principal scientist. He previously worked at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Givaudan Flavors Ltd. in Duebendorf, the Netherlands. He earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees in physical and macromolecular chemistry from Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands; and his doctorate degree in chemical engineering and materials science from Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.