Dr Natalya Schmerl holds the position of Civil Engineer with UniSA Commercial Testing conducted within STEM. She is a materials scientist by education and received her PhD in surface and interfacial analysis in 2018, specialising in electron and ion scattering spectroscopies.
Natalya joined UniSA in 2018 working as a Senior Technical Officer and then transitioned into a Research Associate/ Senior Research Engineer position for 3 years. In this time she worked on both industry and academic projects in a range of discipline areas such as metallurgy, thin film coating, electrically conductive polymers and 3D printing of polymers.
In 2020 the University created a mask testing and synthetic blood facility as part of South Australia’s... Read more
About me
Dr Natalya Schmerl holds the position of Civil Engineer with UniSA Commercial Testing conducted within STEM. She is a materials scientist by education and received her PhD in surface and interfacial analysis in 2018, specialising in electron and ion scattering spectroscopies.
Natalya joined UniSA in 2018 working as a Senior Technical Officer and then transitioned into a Research Associate/ Senior Research Engineer position for 3 years. In this time she worked on both industry and academic projects in a range of discipline areas such as metallurgy, thin film coating, electrically conductive polymers and 3D printing of polymers.
In 2020 the University created a mask testing and synthetic blood facility as part of South Australia’s COVID-19 response, and Natalya worked with this facility from its formation, becoming facility manager and was the facility leader through the NATA certification process. In 2022 Natalya became part of the Microscopy Australia team and worked with the X-Ray diffractometers at Mawson Lakes, running samples and performing instrument maintenance.
In 2023 she transitioned her NATA skill set over to STEM Commercial Testing with the Australian Flow Management Group (AFMG) and the Structural Material Assemblies Group (SMAG).
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University
Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science (First Class) Flinders University
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2022 |
Open access
12
12
4
|
| 2020 |
Open access
9
9
1
|
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation | AUSTRALIA |
| Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
