Bruno Pernet is a Professor of Biological Sciences at CSU Long Beach, where he studies the development, functional morphology, and evolution of the larvae of marine invertebrates. He earned a B.A. in Biology from UC Santa Cruz, then a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington. After postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida, he spent several years teaching and doing research at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and the Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories before starting his position at CSU Long Beach.