Andréa Geneviève Grottoli is a Canadian biologist who is Professor of Earth Sciences at the Ohio State University.
[2] During her graduate studies, she went on a field trip to Hawaii with Paul Jokiel, and became inspired to learn more about coral reefs.
[citation needed] In 2001, Grottoli started her academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was supported by a Institute for Citizens & Scholars Fellowship.
She was a speaker at a 2015 TEDx Ohio State University event, where she spoke about the connection between humans and corals.
[8] She spent the year in the Sorbonne University Oceanographic Lab in Villefranche-sur-Mer[8] where she studied corals of the Mediterranean, and how they are able to survive in stressful environments.