Robert DiMario was a graduate student in the lab of Jim Moroney at Louisiana State University. Robert helped to characterize the physiological roles of the carbonic anhydrases in Arabidopsis thaliana. His research group worked on the implementation of green algae carbon concentrating mechanism components into plants. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology and went on to earn his doctorate from LSU in 2016. He's gone on to be a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University.