Jeff Young received his B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from UBC in 1979, and his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Toronto in 1983.  He spent 9 years at the National Research Council in Ottawa, first in the Division of Physics, and then in the Institute of Microstructural Sciences, as a Research Officer and later as Group Leader.  In 1992 he returned to UBC in the Department of Physics, now the Department of Physics and Astronomy.  He has served as the Director of the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory from 2012-2017, as the Director of the Engineering Physics Program from 1998-2003, and the Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2004-2008.  He has also served on the UBC senate, numerous NSERC committees, and as an advisor to NRC, TRIUMF and other organizations.  He has entrepreneurial experience in Vancouver. His research interests mainly pertain to linear and nonlinear electrodynamics and the optical properties of materials.  For the past decade the focus has been on silicon-based integrated photonic circuits and the hybrid integration of quantum emitters and single photon detectors for quantum information processing.