Sue is a forest ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of Tasmania. After undergraduate, she worked as a research assistant on integrated pest management of leaf feeding beetles. Later, she did her Honours and PhD to follow her passion for conservation science, researching forestry impacts on ground-active beetles, finding them to be highly sensitive to subtle ecological gradients. Her research seeks to improve conservation of forest biodiversity through developing better timber harvesting practices and reserve networks. Her Future Fellowship aims to determine the optimal landscape-scale mix of management and reservation to maximise biodiversity outcomes for a given level of timber production.