Student Program / Keynotes / Janet A.W. Elliott
Janet A.W. Elliott has been heralded by Time magazine as a researcher who defines the frontiers of science, by Alberta’s largest newspapers as a scientist who encapsulates the Albertan spirit, and by a former student as a professor who could “convince rocks to study thermodynamics.”
Elliott, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Interfacial Thermodynamics in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, focuses her research on theoretical and experimental surface thermodynamics along with collaborative research on thermodynamics in cryobiology.
Elliott received her BASc (1990) in the physics option of engineering science, and her MASc (1992) and PhD (1997) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto. After joining the University of Alberta as assistant professor in 1996, Elliott was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2003, simultaneously with her appointment as Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Elliott currently serves on the NSERC Collaborative Health Research Projects selection committee and the editorial board of Cryobiology. .She was the CSChE Director of Education and Student Affairs from 1998–2001. She has won many national, provincial and institutional awards such as The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Young Explorer’s Prize (2002), Canadian Council of Professional Engineers Young Engineer Achievement Award (2001), Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta Early Accomplishment Award (2000), the Martha Cook Piper Research Prize (2007) and the University of Alberta Teaching Unit Award (2004).
Janet A.W. Elliott, MCIC
University of Alberta
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
janet.elliott@ualberta.ca