Last updated December 2005
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Susan Watts is the science editor of BBC TWO's Newsnight programme. She joined Newsnight in January 1995.
Since then science, health, medicine and technology - and their social and political impact - have become central themes on the programme.
Susan has broken major stories on issues including climate change, GM food, nuclear power, human cloning, HIV vaccines and biochemical weapons.
She was a prominent witness at the Hutton inquiry, a judicial investigation in summer 2003 into the death of biological weapons expert Dr David Kelly.
Susan was responsible for much of Newsnight's coverage of the unfolding BSE crisis, for which Newsnight gained its first Bafta award.
She has received the Royal Television Society award for Specialist Journalism for her coverage of genetically-modified food and human genetic science.
Susan joined Newsnight after ten years in print journalism.
She was science and technology correspondent for the Independent newspaper, where she won many awards for her investigative reporting including the Environment Council's Science in the Environment award for a story on Oxfordshire tests of engineered crops.
She was technology correspondent at New Scientist magazine in the late Eighties and, before then, news editor at Computer Weekly.
She has a degree in physics from London's Imperial College.
