Dr Valerie Caron is an entomologist with expertise in biological control and invasion biology. Her research has a strong ecological focus. Dr Caron has a B.Sc. in Agriculture and Environmental Sciences from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a M.Sc. in biological control from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and a PhD from Monash University in invasion biology, Melbourne, Victoria. After her PhD, she moved to Canberra and worked at the University of Canberra as a lecturer until she joined CSIRO in 2018 to become Team Leader of the Invertebrate Management Team in the Health and Biosecurity Business Unit. She has recently moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, but remains an affiliate with CSIRO. Her current research focuses on invasive land snails, introduced dung beetles, pre-emptive biological control and the restoration of water places in Central Australia.