Nicholas Fitzgerald

I am a PhD chemist with 10 years postdoctoral research experience in the Defence sector at the Defence Science and Technology Group. Before crossing to the University of Melbourne in early 2019 I was involved as an inventor of 4 seperate wearable chemical vapour detection technologies for military protective applications and have held competitive grants with the Australian Research Council, Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office, the Joint Program Executive Office and the Next Generation Technologies Fund.

As a Land Division researcher at DST Group I had broad experience and understanding across a breadth of soldier centric topics including chemical and biological protection, detection and hazard management as well as enhanced human performance science and medical countermeasures. At the University of Melbourne I am part of the Defence Enterprise team.