Nic is an international leader in multiomic analysis using physiology, mass spectrometry, bioinformatics and machine learning and he leads the Molecular Acclimation Group at the School of Molecular Sciences and Institute of Agriculture at UWA. His research spans both plant and human biochemistry where he examines the metabolic impacts of extreme temperature events both high and low on crop plants, and the impacts of plant/fungal derived compounds on brain function. He has pioneered the application of metabolic analysis (proteomic, metabolomic & lipidomic) to field grown crop plants, and he also uses these approaches in human cell models. His research also includes the use of HTP spectroscopy approaches (FTIR and Hyperspectral imaging) to characterise macromolecules, biological processes, and grain quality.