Lori Hiroko Luers holds a Master's of Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research project was: "Using Tigriopus californicus as a model organism in order to study hybrid breakdown, ecological differentiation and thermal tolerance at the fine-scale level." She completed master's level cell biology and molecular neurobiology at the University of Copenhagen. She has a great deal of lab experience, both at UC San Diego and the University of Copenhagen.