ECR Spotlight – Alyvia Martinez

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Alyvia Martinez is an author on ‘ The effects of anthropogenic sound on embryonic little skates (Leucoraja erinacea) and chain dogfish (Scyliorhinus rotifer)’, published in JEB. Alyvia conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate researcher (REU) in Allen Mensinger's lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA. Alyvia is now a PhD student in the lab of Sönke Johnsen at Duke University, USA, investigating the visual diversity in sea spiders across many marine environments to understand how habitat-specific visual demands influence the evolution of their eye morphology.