Janis Elizabeth Swan MNZM (née Trout) is a New Zealand food process engineering academic.
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.
[2] 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.
[4] In the 2009 New Year Honours, Swan was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to engineering.
[1] In 2010, she won the J. C. Andrews Award from the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology, their highest honour.