Violeta López Márquez is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the University of Aruba and KU Leuven (Belgium) working in the SISSTEM program. She works on the project Population Structure and Genetic Connectivity of Scleractinian Corals in the Southern Caribbean Sea. Violeta is a marine biologist and a researcher. Her background studies started with the analyses of morphological characters of different sea stars of the genus Asterina. Her current research studies, in population genetics, include developing microsatellites and gene fragments of several marine species as mollusks and corals. Studying gene flow, phylogenetic relationships, and genetic structure to know connectivity among populations. She has a longstanding interest in population genomics of marine invertebrates and her PhD project entitled Genetic structure and connectivity in coastal marine invertebrates was focused on the study of Seascape genetics with different marine species.