HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

HEALTH

Dr. CAROL LAPOHOS

Currently veterinary within ‘Veterinarius’ vet’s office, Cluj-Napoca.

Graduated the Veterinary Academy within the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Surgery, Cluj-Napoca, in 1993.

Member of the Romanian Association Of Veterinaries.

HAPPINESS

ALINA SIMONA RUSU

Currently, main researcher within the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and POSTDOCTORAND at The International Institute for Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Graduated the Faculty of Biology-Geology, within the Babes-Bolyai University; master degree in biocenology, same university; doctor in animal psychology; PhD degree at the Zurich Institute of Zoology, with a thesis on the development of competitive behavioural profiles in wild house mice.

2005-2007 Excellency research grant for the study of psycho-physiological indicators of the development of coping strategies and adaptive behavioural phenotypes in wild and captive mammals.

Research topics :

• social coping mechanisms in animals
• olfactory social memory in mammals
• behavioural engineering in captive animals
• animal assisted therapy and animal assisted activities
• evolutionary biology and applied behavioural ecology