Wei Yih (Wil) Hee was a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University. For RIPE, he worked to incorporate Rubisco and the carbon concentrating mechanism from alpha-cyanobacteria into the project’s model plant, tobacco, using chloroplast transformation. Wei Yih received his bachelor’s degree in plant biotechnology at the National University of Malaysia. He went on to earn his master’s degree in biotechnology and doctorate in plant science from the Australian National University. Will has gone on to work at the government Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation and is in a senior graduate program.