College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Major Advisor:

Jerrold Belant

 Background:

Jamshid is an Iranian wildlife biologist who was born in Tehran. He spent all of his childhood and youth in Tehran, and then moved to Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran in 2003 to achieve his bachelor’s degree in General Biology. In 2009, Jamshid moved to Pune in India to achieve his master’s degree in Zoology. He then returned to Iran in 2012 and started working on Iran’s large carnivores (i.e., Asiatic cheetah Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, Persian leopard Panthera pardus saxicolor, and brown bear Ursus arctos). One of the most important projects of his was conducting the first ever camera-trap research on brown bears in Lar Wildlife Refuge during 2013–2014. Jamshid’s research interests include large carnivore ecology, large carnivore-human and predator-prey interactions, and large carnivore management and conservation. He will be working on brown bears on Kodiak Island, Alaska, for his PhD dissertation.