Dr. Janet A. W. Elliott is a University of Alberta Distinguished Professor recognized as being among the world’s leading engineering scientists, known for her profound insight into fundamental and applied thermodynamics. Her creative and elegant integration of mathematics and experimental data has addressed many long-standing problems across a wide array of disciplines in science, engineering, and medicine, particularly in surface science and cryobiology. Her work has expanded thermodynamics to new complexity, new length scales, and new disciplines, has provided some of the most cited works on the osmotic virial equation and statistical rate theory, and has provided leading cryopreservation protocols.