Professor Stuart Sandin is a Professor in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution from the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.

Prof. Sandin pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. 

As a marine biologist, his research spans conservation biology, mathematical ecology, and coral reef ecology.