Commander Felicity Petrie is an Engineer in the Royal Australian Navy. Growing up by the ocean on the north west coast of Tasmania, and encouraged to engage with technology from an early age, Felicity has enjoyed a career that couples her lifelong love of the sea with a passion for STEM. She has worked on ships at sea and in the dockyard solving complex technical problems and upgrading advanced systems. Ashore she has worked on the development of robotics and autonomous systems for Navy, and researches the history of maritime technology to inform future capability.