Tariq Nazir

Dr. Tariq Nazir is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Victoria University, Australia, and an adjunct researcher at RMIT University with a distinguished career in electrical power, fire safety of electrical systems, and high voltage engineering. He recently secured the prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Early Career Industry Fellowship (2024) for his project on fire-retardant coatings to prevent pole-top fires in electricity networks—an initiative aligned with Australia’s bushfire mitigation strategies and critical infrastructure resilience.

His research spans multiple high-impact areas:

• Electrical Power and High Voltage Engineering, including insulation diagnostics, partial discharge detection, nanodielectrics, and machine learning applications in condition monitoring.
• Fire-Safe Electrical Networks, focused on polymeric insulation, fire-retardant materials, and power network safety under extreme bushfire events.
• Superconducting Devices, with emphasis on cryogenic dielectrics and HTS technologies for clean energy and aerospace applications.
• Energy Storage and Conversion, Batteries and Supercapacitors.

He has led or contributed to projects worth over $1.8 million in competitive research funding and has supervised several PhD and master’s students across interdisciplinary domains. Dr. Nazir has held academic positions at UNSW Sydney, RMIT University, and international appointments in China, Saudi Arabia, and the United States (as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Florida State University’s CAPS).