Our staff

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Staff profiles

Matthew Foster
Developer

As a developer within the eConnect+ Project team, Matt plays a role in maintaining and supporting the existing eConnect+ Project's - Extrata Data Sharing Platform to provide primary producers and industry service...

Matt Mills
Technical Officer

Matthew works at the Managed Environment Facility in Merredin, which hosts trials looking at crop characterisation and improvement for water-limited environments in Australia. He also carries out general farm and trial...

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Technical Officer

McKenzie is a Technical Officer based in Esperance, who is part of the Farming Systems Innovation team working on the soil amelioration project. Her role in the project involves providing technical support for field and...

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Development Officer

Megan is a Development Officer based in Geraldton. As part of the Farming Systems Innovation team, she supports regional client delivery through developing and maintaining relationships, providing and communicating...

Mel Ford
Research Scientist

Mel is a fruit researcher working on subtropical and tropical perennial crops in Carnarvon. In her role at DPIRD, she investigates new technologies and techniques for growing crops for the future. These include the use...

Melinda Moir
Senior Research Officer.

My role is as DPIRD Diagnostic and Laboratory Services (DDLS) Entomology section manager.

Meredith Guthrie
Research Scientist

Dr Guthrie enables primary industry development through her research with DPIRD’s Systems Modelling branch, focusing on climate and weather of the South West Land Division. She is responsible for producing the monthly...

Milan Patel
Technical Officer

Milan is based in Manjimup, specialising in avocados. His research includes assessing avocado flower behaviour, fruit quality and irregular bearing. Milan will also be exploring fruit robustness, fungicide treatments,...

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Research Scientist, Crop Protection

Miranda joined DPIRD Northam’s crop protection team as a Research Scientist in May 2021 to determine the applicability of...

Dr Mirza Dowla
Research Scientist

Dr Mirza Dowla specializes in plant breeding and joined DPIRD as a research scientist to support a pre-breeding program on wheat's genetic improvement under sodic, magnesic and dispersive soils.  

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