Suzanne Cubey is a Deputy Herbarium Curator in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh where she has responsibility for the day to day running of the Herbarium with particular interests in the Cultivated Herbarium and destructive sampling from herbarium specimens both which involve Science and Horticulture. Originally she came to RBGE as a taxonomic researcher then became the Assistant Secretary on the Editorial Board for the European Garden Flora. This was also combined with the post of Plant Records Officer for a number of years. Following this she was involved with the Flora of Chile project and participated in a number of expeditions to Chile.