In memory of Sue Nicolson

Abstract

With the passing of Professor Sue Nicolson on 27 April 2023, South Africa’s zoological community lost a respected and internationally acclaimed leader in evolutionary and ecological physiology. Sue was born in Dargaville, New Zealand in 1950 and earned a PhD in insect physiology from the University of Cambridge before moving to the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1978. After initially being employed as a research assistant to pioneering desert biologist Professor Gideon Louw, Sue was appointed as a senior lecturer in 1990. The UCT Department of Zoology remained her academic home until the end of 2000, when she moved to the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Zoology and Entomology.