Dylan is an Agricultural Scientist, who is passionate about using science and local knowledge to improve food security. Dylan is completing his PhD candidature at the University of Melbourne. His work is supporting a traditional owner group to develop one of their Indigenous food plants into a modern-day crop. Dylan first travelled to Papua New Guinea in 2019 as a New Colombo Plan (NCP) Scholar, where he undertook his Honours research and a semester exchange at Unitech, alongside an internship with Wafi-Golpu Joint Venture. Dylan is interested in how we can better harness initiatives, such as the NCP, to benefit the Australia-PNG relationship.