Nial J. Wheate (born 1976) is an Australian pharmaceutical chemist and author who currently works at the University of Sydney in Australia.

After graduating from Copland College in Canberra, Australia, Wheate was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy.

He attended the Australian Defence Force Academy,[1] where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree, double majoring in chemistry, and graduated in 1997 with First Class Honours.

Grant Collins within the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at the University of New South Wales, with a thesis titled "Platinum Anticancer Drugs" in 2001.

Wheate has also published in a variety of other areas, including military justice,[11] naval history,[12][13] weapons of mass destruction,[14] and he has written a novel titled Whikatak Island.