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Martin graduated from Oxford with an
upper second class honours degree in Chemistry in 1991, and then went
onto to obtain a PhD in Materials Science from the University of
California, Santa Barbara in 1996. His dissertation work involved the
location and characterisation of extra-framework species in zeolitic
redox catalysts and he was supervised by Professor Anthony Cheetham. He
then spent two periods as a post-doctoral researcher investigating the
property of negative thermal expansion of microporous materials, in
Professor Art Sleight's group at Oregon State University, and the use
of Ti-containing mesoporous materials as epoxidation catalysts in a
Shell sponsored project in Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas' group at
the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In July 1999 Martin was awarded
a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which he commenced in
October 1999 based at Birkbeck College from where he transfered to
UMIST in February 2003. The award is being used to synthesise,
characterise and apply new inorganic-organic hybrid microprous
materials.
Martin enjoys travel and rock climbing.
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