Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado has a B.Sc. in Marine Biology, an M.Sc. in Environmental Microbiology of Tropical Waters, a Ph.D. in Tropical Biology, with a specialization in Coral Reef Ecology, and a post-doc in Molecular Microbiology of Coral Diseases. He is currently an Assistant Professor (2017–present) in a joint appointment at the Faculty of Natural Sciences Interdisciplinary Program and at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras campus (UPRRP). He is also an Affiliate Researcher at the Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation (CATEC) at UPRRP (2007–present), where he coordinates the Coral Reef Research Group of the Ecosystems Processes and Functions Cluster. He has also been the Senior Researcher of the Marine Environment Society (“Sociedad Ambiente Marino”, SAM) since 2002, coordinating many of its marine conservation projects, research activities and the scientific component of SAM’s coral reef rehabilitation program. He has been co-founder and co-director of SAM’s Community-based Coral Aquaculture and Reef Rehabilitation Program since 2003. He has an extensive experience participating or leading coastal and marine environmental impact studies, benthic and essential fish habitat assessments, biological characterization studies, species inventories, marine compensatory mitigations, and benthic habitat restoration activities.