Dr Heather Shewan
Advance Qld Industry Research Fellow & Senior Research Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
+61 7 336 54920
Researcher biography
Heather attained her Bachelor of Technology degree in food engineering from Massey University. She then spent 10 years in gelatine manufacture in various roles including quality assurance, production management and process improvement engineering. In 2015 she completed her PhD study into the rheology of biopolymer soft particle suspensions, supervised by Professor Jason Stokes at the University of Queensland. She has since continued at UQ in postdoctoral roles investigating the relationship between rheological properties, food structure and sensory perception of real food products and model soft particle suspensions with a focus on dairy protein systems. The key outcomes from the project have allowed our industry partner to move towards the rational design of food products.
Book Chapter
Shewan, H. M. and Stokes, J. R. (2020). Food structure development for rheological/tribological performance. Handbook of food structure development. (pp. 175-198) edited by Fotis Spyropoulos, Aris Lazidis and Ian Norton. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry. doi: 10.1039/9781788016155-00173
Journal Articles
Fan, Nengneng, Shewan, Heather M., Yakubov, Gleb E. and Stokes, Jason R. (2024). Structure Response of Preadsorbed Saliva Pellicle to the Interaction between Dairy and Saliva Protein. Langmuir, 40 (22), 11516-11525. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00626
Tao, Shiwei, Ramirez, Julio, Shewan, Heather M., Lyu, Miaoqiang, Gentle, Ian, Wang, Lianzhou and Knibbe, Ruth (2024). Ink to power: an organic-based polymer electrolyte for ambient printing of flexible zinc batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202402050
Barrat, Jean-Louis, Del Gado, Emanuela, Egelhaaf, Stefan U., Mao, Xiaoming, Dijkstra, Marjolein, Pine, David J, Kumar, Sanat K, Bishop, Kyle, Gang, Oleg, Obermeyer, Allie, Papadakis, Christine M., Tsitsilianis, Costantinos, Smalyukh, Ivan I., Hourlier-Fargette, Aurelie, Andrieux, Sebastien, Drenckhan, Wiebke, Wagner, Norman, Murphy, Ryan P., Weeks, Eric R., Cerbino, Roberto, Han, Yilong, Cipelletti, Luca, Ramos, Laurence, Poon, Wilson C. K., Richards, James A., Cohen, Itai, Furst, Eric M., Nelson, Alshakim, Craig, Stephen L. ... Kwon, Jiheon (2023). Soft matter roadmap. Journal of Physics: Materials, 7 (1) 012501, 1-104. doi: 10.1088/2515-7639/ad06cc
Rudge, Raisa E.D., Mosselman, Melissa J., Shewan, Heather M., Stokes, Jason R., Dijksman, Joshua A. and Scholten, Elke (2023). The impact of tribometer motion and surface roughness on the frictional regimes of model foods. Food Hydrocolloids, 145 108976, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2023.108976
Moura Nadolny, Jaqueline, Best, Odette, Netzel, Gabriele, Shewan, Heather M., Dao Thi Phan, Anh, Smyth, Heather E. and Stokes, Jason R. (2023). Chemical composition of bunya nuts (Araucaria bidwillii) compared to Araucaria angustifolia and Araucaria araucana species. Food Research International, 163 112269, 112269. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2022.112269
Lim, Ming Y., Xu, Yuan, Shewan, Heather M. and Stokes, Jason R. (2022). Entrainment mechanism of viscoplastic fat particles and tribofilm formation in soft contact tribology. Biotribology, 32 100220, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.biotri.2022.100220
Shewan, Heather M. , Siauw, Meiliana , Vinden, Naomi , Dong, Anran , Beheshti, Amir , Chew, Keng Yih, Stokes, Jason R. , Short, Kirsty R., Mikkelsen, Deirdre, Koehler, Berthold and Reihmann, Matthias (2022). Developing an antiviral surface cleaner utilising unique surface adsorption properties of hydroxyproline-rich-proteins. Household and Personal Care Today, 17 (5), 57-61.
Moura Nadolny, Jaqueline, Best, Odette, Hassall, Emma, Shewan, Heather M., Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2022). Sensory properties of Australian bunya nuts. Journal of Food Science, 87 (6), 2732-2743. doi: 10.1111/1750-3841.16184
Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Shewan, Heather M., Shingleton, Rebecca, Hort, Joanne, Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2022). Oral physiology, sensory acuity, product experience and personality traits impact consumers’ ability to detect particles in yoghurt. Food Quality and Preference, 96 104391, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104391
Wu, Zhiqing, Yang, Fan, Li, Xiaomin, Carroll, Anthony, Loa-Kum-Cheung, Wendy, Shewan, Heather M., Stokes, Jason R., Zhao, Dongyuan and Li, Qin (2022). Solid and hollow nanoparticles templated using non-ionic surfactant-based reverse micelles and vesicles. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 634 127917, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.127917
Seviour, Thomas, Winnerdy, Fernaldo Richtia, Wong, Lan Li, Shi, Xiangyan, Mugunthan, Sudarsan, Foo, Yong Hwee, Castaing, Remi, Adav, Sunil S., Subramoni, Sujatha, Kohli, Gurjeet Singh, Shewan, Heather M., Stokes, Jason R., Rice, Scott A., Phan, Anh Tuân and Kjelleberg, Staffan (2021). The biofilm matrix scaffold of Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains G-quadruplex extracellular DNA structures. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 7 (1) 27, 27. doi: 10.1038/s41522-021-00197-5
Shewan, Heather M., Deshmukh, Omkar S., Chen, Gengning, Rodrigues, Sophia, Selway, Nichola and Stokes, Jason R. (2021). Interpreting rheological behaviour of sugar-fat mixtures as a function of solids phase volume. Journal of Food Engineering, 297 110474, 110474. doi: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2020.110474
Fan, Nengneng, Shewan, Heather M., Smyth, Heather E., Yakubov, Gleb E. and Stokes, Jason R. (2021). Dynamic Tribology Protocol (DTP): response of salivary pellicle to dairy protein interactions validated against sensory perception. Food Hydrocolloids, 113 106478, 106478. doi: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2020.106478
Shewan, Heather M., Yakubov, Gleb E., Bonilla, Mauricio R. and Stokes, Jason R. (2021). Viscoelasticity of non-colloidal hydrogel particle suspensions at the liquid–solid transition. Soft Matter, 17 (19), 5073-5083. doi: 10.1039/d0sm01624a
Rodrigues, Sophia A., Shewan, Heather M., Xu, Yuan, Selway, Nichola and Stokes, Jason R. (2021). Frictional behaviour of molten chocolate as a function of fat content. Food and Function, 12 (6), 2457-2467. doi: 10.1039/d0fo03378b
Olarte Mantilla, Sandra M., Shewan, Heather M., Shingleton, Rebecca, Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2020). Ability to detect and identify the presence of particles influences consumer acceptance of yoghurt. Food Quality and Preference, 85 103979, 103979. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.103979
Shewan, Heather M., Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2020). Influence of particle modulus (softness) and matrix rheology on the sensory experience of ‘grittiness’ and ‘smoothness’. Food Hydrocolloids, 103 105662, 105662. doi: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2020.105662
Solemanifar, Armin, Nguyen, Tuan A.H., Laycock, Bronwyn, Shewan, Heather Margaret, Donose, Bogdan Constantin and Creasey, Rhiannon C. G. (2019). Assessing the effect of aromatic residues placement on α-helical peptide structure and nanofibril formation of 21-mer peptides. Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, 5 (2), 521-531. doi: 10.1039/c9me00082h
Shewan, Heather M., Pradal, Clementine and Stokes, Jason R. (2019). Tribology and its growing use towards the study of food oral processing and sensory perception. Journal of Texture Studies, 51 (1) jtxs.12452, 7-22. doi: 10.1111/jtxs.12452
Shewan, Heather M., Stokes, Jason R. and Cloitre, Michel (2017). Particle-wall tribology of slippery hydrogel particle suspensions. Soft Matter, 13 (10), 2099-2106. doi: 10.1039/c6sm01775d
Boehm, Michael W., Shewan, Heather M., Steen, Jennifer A. and Stokes, Jason R. (2015). Illustrating ultra-low-volume rheology on a conventional rheometer: Charting the development of hyaluronan during fermentation. Applied Rheology, 25 (55609), 12-19. doi: 10.3933/APPLRHEOL-25-55609
Shewan, Heather M. and Stokes, Jason R. (2015). Analytically predicting the viscosity of hard sphere suspensions from the particle size distribution. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 222, 72-81. doi: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2014.09.002
Shewan, Heather M. and Stokes, Jason R. (2015). Viscosity of soft spherical micro-hydrogel suspensions. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 442, 75-81. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2014.11.064
Shewan, Heather M. and Stokes, Jason R. (2013). Review of techniques to manufacture micro-hydrogel particles for the food industry and their applications. Journal of Food Engineering, 119 (4), 781-792. doi: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2013.06.046
Conference Papers
Nadolny, Jaqueline Moura, Smyth, Heather Eunice, Best, Odette, Hassall, Emma, Olarte Mantilla, Sandra, Stokes, Jason and Shewan, Heather (2022). Sensory characteristics of Australian bunya nuts. 16th Australian and New Zealand Sensory and Consumer Science Symposium, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 15-17 February 2022.
Moura Nadolny, Jaqueline, Shewan, Heather M., Stokes, Jason R., Best, Odette and Smyth, Heather E. (2022). Establishing a value proposition for bunya nuts as a versatile gluten-free flour. TropAg 2022, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 31 October - 2 November 2022.
Moura Nadolny, Jaqueline, Best, Odette, Flanagan, Bernadine, Shewan, Heather, Smyth, Heather E. and Stokes, Jason (2021). Bunya nut as a healthy and versatile gluten-free source for flour production. 6th Food Structures, Digestion and Health Conference, Virtual, 16-19 November 2021.
Moura Nadolny, Jaqueline, Shewan, Heather M., Stokes, Jason R. and Smyth, Heather E. (2021). Sensory characterisation of Australian Araucaria nuts and factors affecting their main attributes. 15th Australian and New Zealand Sensory and Consumer Science Symposium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 9-11 February 2021.
Shewan, Heather and Smyth, Heather Eunice (2018). Using model soft particles to define a structure-function relationship applicable to semi-solid foods. 12th Australian and New Zealand Sensory and Consumer Science Symposium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 5-7 February 2018.
Shewan, H. M. and Stokes, J. R. (2012). Biopolymer microgel suspension rheology as a function of particle modulus and effective phase volume. 16th Gums and Stabilisers for the Food Industry Conference, Wageningen, Netherlands, 28 June -1 July 2011. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry. doi: 10.1039/9781849734554-00165
Thesis
Shewan, Heather (2015). Rheology of soft particle suspensions. PhD Thesis, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.533