Anja Schulze’s main research interest is the phylogeny of marine invertebrates, with a focus on polychaete and sipunculan worms. She is also interested in invertebrate life histories and how they evolved. Anja obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Victoria, Canada, where she studied the phylogeny of tubeworms from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of Natural History she studied the phylogeny and genetic diversity of palolo worms, a group of polychaetes with a pantropical distribution. She also held postdoctoral positions at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce where her research concentrated on sipunculan worms. Anja reconstructed sipunculan phylogeny using DNA sequence data and examined the development of the nervous and muscular systems. Dr. Schulze is currently an assistant professor in the Marine Biology department at Texas A&M in Galveston.