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 returned to New Zealand, and spent three years as a post-doctoral research at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at Ruakura developing a process for the extraction of protein from grass. She then spent 16 years at the Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand, also at Ruakura, where she worked on rendering and blood processing, as well as meat product development. Swan returned to academia in 1997, becoming a full professor at the University of Waikato. She served as head of the Department of Materials and Process