Marsya Christyanti Sibarani is working for a PhD in anthropology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her research investigates the effects of forest fragmentation on the population persistence of gibbons (Hylobatidae) in Sumatra.

Marsya is a wildlife biologist at Wildlife Conservation Society, Indonesia Program, in Kotaagung, Lampung.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in biology from Universitas Indonesia, and her master’s in conservation science from the University of Queensland, Australia.