Kat Bolstad is the project lead for CephRef. She a professor at Auckland University of Technology, where she leads a deep-sea squid research group, the AUT Lab for Cephalopod Ecology & Systematics (ALCES), also known as the AUT Squid Squad. She was a contributor to the Tree of Life Web Project, has featured in several cephalopod-themed episodes of the Deep-sea Podcast, and is on staff at the Octopus News Magazine Online (TONMO).