Laura Marchese is a third year PhD candidate at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) at Deakin University. Her thesis aims to understand plant-based dietary patterns and their associations with cardiometabolic health across adulthood. She has a cross-institutional supervisory team consisting of Dr Katherine Livingstone. Dr Priscila Machado, and Prof Sarah McNaughton (IPAN), Dr Kacie Dickinson (Flinders University) and Dr Gilly Hendrie (CSIRO).