Helen Yan

PhD Candidate (she/her)

At the age of 5, Helen’s curiosity for the ocean was inspired by her older sister. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada, she frequented rocky shores in the search for any and all organisms in the intertidal. Naturally, she finally took her curiosity below the surface during her undergraduate career at Simon Fraser University, where she worked as a research assistant in Dr. Isabelle Côté’s lab. Since then, she has graduated with her Honours, which was done in collaboration with Griffith University in the Gold Coast, Australia, and has since been working for the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group. Hanging up her drysuit temporarily, Helen’s PhD thesis will be exploring the interplay between coral-loss and reef fish assemblages.

Helen’s recent publications