Nic Taylor completed his undergraduate studies and MSc at Massey University, New Zealand and in 2000 moved to UWA to undertake his PhD. After his PhD he was awarded and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Long Term Fellowship to study at the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford. He was recruited back to UWA in 2006 to the newly established ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (ARC CoE PEB). Here he has applied and developed a wide range of quantitative proteomics approaches in his research. He is particularly well known for his pioneering work in the development of peptide selective reaction monitoring (SRM) mass spectrometry approaches in plants and developed an SRM toolbox (APP, http://www.plantenergy.uwa.edu.au/APP/) for plant biologists wishing to conduct SRM experiment in the model plant Arabidopsis. His lab seeks gain a comprehensive understandings of how metabolites, proteins and lipids within plant cells respond to extremes of temperature and salt with the hope this knowledge can be applied to future breeding programs to allow the production of thermal and salinity tolerant crop plants. He is currently an ARC Future Fellow at the ARC CoE PEB and School of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UWA, a member of the Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Subcommittee for Proteomics (MASCP) and the Australian Representative of the International Plant Proteomics Organisation (INPPO). In 2015 he was awarded the Robson Medal for Research Excellence in Agriculture and Related Areas.