Janis Swan

Janis Elizabeth Swan (née Trout) is a New Zealand food process engineering academic. She is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Waikato.

Academic and research career Educated at Horowhenua College in Levin, Swan went on to study biotechnology at Massey University, completing a Bachelor of Technology in 1969 and a Master of Technology in 1971. After working in industry for two years, she returned to Massey as a lecturer. She was awarded a Walter Mulholland Fellowship, which enabled her to undertake doctoral studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and she completed her PhD on the modelling of fungal growth on cellulose pulp in airlift fermenters in 1977. Swan was a Marsden Fund council member between 2010 and 2013. She was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology in 2006, and of the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand in 2005.

In 2018, Swan was named as a Distinguished Fellow of Engineering New Zealand, the second woman to be so honoured.

Selected works Du, Yanhai, Nigel M. Sammes, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Deliang Zhang, Janis Swan, and Mark Bowden. "Extruded Tubular Strontium-and Magnesium-Doped Lanthanum Gallate, Gadolinium-Doped Ceria, and Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Electrolytes Mechanical and Thermal Properties." Journal of the Electrochemical Society 150, no. 1 (2003): A74-A78. Farouk, M. M., W. K. Hall, and Janis E. Swan. "Attributes of beef sausage batters, patties and restructured roasts from two boning systems." Journal of Muscle Foods 11, no. 3 (2000): 197–212. Thavanayagam, Gnanavinthan, Kim L. Pickering, Janis E. Swan, and Peng Cao. "Analysis of rheological behaviour of titanium feedstocks formulated with a water-soluble binder system for powder injection moulding." Powder Technology 269 (2015): 227–232. Swan, Janis Elizabeth, and P. J. Torley. "Collagen: structure, function and uses." (1991). Lay, Mark C., Levinia K. Paku, and Janis E. Swan. "Work placement reports: Student perceptions." (2008): 1–7.