Ni Kadek Dita Cahyani, PhD is a lecturer at the Biology Department, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Diponegoro University, Indonesia. She is a scientist working with molecular tools to answer questions about biodiversity, especially marine biodiversity in Indonesia. She has also participated in notable research on DNA barcoding of sharks and stranded cetacean, phylogenetic analysis and species identification of reef fishes, and marine biodiversity assessment in Indonesia. In 2015, she was awarded the Fulbright Presidential Ph.D. scholarship and began her Ph.D. program at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She also went to The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC to learn about the environmental DNA methods during her stay. This novel tool is on the cutting edge of marine and biodiversity science.