Santiago Herrera

Santiago Herrera is a highly skilled marine biologist currently serving as a Graduate Research Assistant/Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since June 2009, focusing on the genomics, molecular ecology, and evolution of marine invertebrates as part of the MIT & Woods Hole Joint Program in Oceanography. Prior experience includes roles as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Universidad de los Andes, providing instruction in phylogenetic systematics, and as a Graduate Student Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, where project work involved phylogeography and morphological variation of specific octocoral species. Santiago holds a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MSc in Biological Sciences, and a dual B.Sc. in Biology and Microbiology from Universidad de los Andes.