Ana Signorovitch was first introduced to placozoans as a graduate student while rotating in Professor Leo Buss’ lab at Yale University. These small marine invertebrates immediately peeked her interest because so little was known about them, despite their apparent simplicity, ease of laboratory culture, and basal position in the animal tree. Signorovitch's Ph.D. dissertation regarded three aspects of placozoan biology: their life cycle, diversity, and mitochondrial genome structure. Her scientific interests are in evolutionary population genetics theory, dynamical systems, and evolution of multicellularity. She is currently working with Professor Matthew Meselson at Harvard University on the population genetics of bdelloid rotifers, the largest group of animals for which sexual reproduction, males, or meiosis has never been observed.