Dr. Gosliner has worked as Curator at the South African Museum and as a professor at the universities of San Francisco State and Stanford. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and is the author of two identification guides of nudibranchs and other marine invertebrates. His main interest is the evolutionary history of the gastropod mollusks, particularly those of the Opisthobranchia subclass. He has done fieldwork mainly in South Africa, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Costa Rica, Galápagos, Hawaii islands, Azores Islands and the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States.