Johannie Maria Spaan

Johannie Maria Spaan is a South African wildlife biologist.

After her studies in zoology and ecology at Tshwane University of Technology, her first works consisted in conducting behavioral studies on Cape ground squirrels. She also studied at the University of Pretoria, and was accepted at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Oregon and the University of Georgia in the US to finish her doctorate thesis. Spaan was among the fifteen Fellows chosen by the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science to receive an international scholarship to pursue their research projects.