Nick is a naval architect working for the MoD, currently posted to University College London as Associate Professor of Naval Architecture and Director of the UK Submarine Design & Acquisition Course. He holds a PhD from University College London on the topic of ship structural survivability, awarded in 2013. He has worked in defence for twenty five years, first as a naval architecture desk officer then as an academic teaching structures, stability, survivability, operations analysis and design. His publications cover novel concept designs, early stage design methods, structural survivability and the use of wargaming as a tool for engineering education.