Zaynab Mashood

PhD. Student

2025 (ongoing) - PhD student at Doctoral School of Poznan University of Life Sciences in animal sciences and fishery
2024 - MSc. Animal Production Management, Poznań University of Life Sciences
2021 - BSc. Zoology, University of Ilorin

2024 – Feed Technology and Production Intern at one of the top fish feed-producing companies, Skretting, Norway
2023 – Research and Development Intern at one of the top fish feed-producing companies, Skretting, Norway
2023 – Summer School Research Assistant at the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budějovice, Czech Republic
2022 – Graduate Assistant at the University of Ibadan Zoological Garden, University of Ibadan Nigeria
2021 – Research Student at the Department of Zoology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
2019 – Summer Research Intern at the Central Research Laboratories, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

2024 - Golden Medal for academic achievements from the Poznań University of Life Sciences
2024 - Graduated at the top of my class in my Masters’ Program in Animal Production Management with a CGPA of 4.91on a 5.00-grade scale
2024 - Demonstrated exceptional research qualities as an intern with Skretting twice through the Erasmus+ Summer Internship Programme
2023 - Travel Grant Award for the Aquaculture Canada 2023 Conference and Tradeshow held in Victoria, Canada
2023 - Grant Award for International Summer School Programme at the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia
2021 - Third place award with cash prizes at the Center for Social Awareness, Advocacy and Ethics (CSAAE) Youth Ethics Debate
2021 - Nominee for the Best Promising Undergraduate Award at the Nigerian Society for Experimental Biologists (NISEB) 20th Annual Conference
2021 - Best Graduating Student at the Department of Zoology, University of Ilorin
2020 - Scholar of the Year Award for consecutively winning the 2018-2019-2020 University of Ilorin Scholarship Award