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Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire. Prior to that, Martin was the Director of the Centre for Astrophysics Research. Before moving to UH in 2004 he was a PDRA and Royal Society research fellow in the Astrophysics Group of the Physics Department in the University of Bristol. Martin did his first degree at Churchill College in the University of Cambridge and his PhD in the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (now the Astrophysics Group), part of the Cambridge Physics Department. Subsequently Martin did some courses with the Open University, ending up with a BA and Diploma in Classical Studies, and for some years was a (part-time) Associate Lecturer for them, teaching Astrophysics. In 2019 Cambridge awarded Martin the ScD degree.