Juan A. Sánchez is a marine scientist and an evolutionary biologist. He now works at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá-Colombia) as a professor. Juan A. Sánchez completed his master’s degree at the National University of Colombia and a doctorate at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He then completed postdoctoral training at the Smithsonian Institution (Invertebrate Zoology), and then at National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Wellington (Marine Biodiversity). His research interests include the interaction between ecology and evolution, particularly of marine modular invertebrates such as octocorals. Additionally, he has an increasing interest in marine conservation biology.