About
Yasmeen Ghavamian studied at Sonoma State University (SSU), receiving her B.A. in Biology in May 2018 and M.S. in Biology in May 2020. Ms. Ghavamian has several years of experience working with captive animals, including volunteering at the Animal Resource Center at San Francisco Zoo where she worked hands-on with a variety of mammals, reptiles and birds. As an undergraduate at SSU, Ms. Ghavamian began studying the Malayan sun bears at Oakland Zoo when she joined a previous research project in the SSU Primate Ethology Research Lab. As a master's student, she expanded on her undergraduate work and continued to collaborate with Oakland Zoo by designing a study that implemented complex feeding enrichment devices for the Malayan sun bears. This study was entirely supported by a crowdfunding campaign through Experiment.com/sunbears and is now published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. She is currently working on her PhD in Animal Biology at University of California, Davis, as a member of the Animal Behavior and Cognition Lab.
Joined
December 2018
