Francine Dolins is a Comparative Psychologist with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Primatology (University of Stirling, Scotland), and BSc. in Biology (Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Theory and Animal Cognition) (University of Sussex, England). Her research focuses on primate cognition and behavior, and cognitive-ecological modeling in the field and laboratory. Specifically, her research concentrates on questions regarding spatial cognition, navigation and foraging behavior, and in the context of group decision-making, social information transfer and group behavior. In the lab, she uses virtual reality (VR) to compare nonhuman and human primate spatial and social cognition. She also applies technology to enhance environmental enrichment of captive nonhuman primates. Dr. Dolins has received multiple research grants from the Templeton World Charity Foundation and The Ford Motor Company. She has edited three volumes with Cambridge University Press, Attitudes to Animals, Spatial Cognition - Spatial Perception, and Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology: Applying GIS at Varying Scales. As an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, she teaches in the Psychology and Psychobiology majors, the Health and Clinical Health Psychology Masters, the Masters Program in Human Centered Design Studies, and is also the Director of the Psychology Honors Program. Additionally, she has been active in furthering conservation education in primary education by working with teachers in the United States and Madagascar (the Ako Project). Dr. Dolins is also co-chair of the Conservation Action Network in the American Society of Primatology, an international primate conservation initiative.