Assoc. Prof. Janet Howieson completed an honours degree in microbiology at the University of Western Australia in 1984, after which she went on to complete a Master of Science at UWA in municipal water supply microbiology in 1988 and a PhD in algal biotechnology at Murdoch University in 2001. She has previously held research positions in public health microbiology and algal biotechnology in the public and private sectors and strategic planning and policy at the WA Department of Fisheries. For the past nine years, she has been working in post-harvest seafood industry research at Curtin University. She has led several research projects across multiple seafood sectors in the areas of supply chain monitoring and intervention, value chain analysis and implementation, new product development, market strategy development, traceability and provenance, and utilization of waste and byproducts. She has been awarded for her work in the seafood industry, including the WAFIC Research, Development and Extension Award (2013); the Curtin University Innovation and Commercialisation Award: Health Sciences (2014), the David Thomassen Award for outstanding contribution to the Australian Seafood CRC (2015) and the WA and National Seafood Industry Award in People Development (2015).
