Martin studied at the
University of Adelaide where he completed his undergraduate degree in 1972. In the same year, he established a sample of twins in
Adelaide while completing his honours thesis. Martin moved to the United Kingdom to complete a
PhD in 1977 under
Lindon Eaves at the
University of Birmingham. After working as a research fellow at the Department of Genetics of the University of Birmingham (1976–1978) and at the Department of Population Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences,
Australian National University (1978–1983), he took a post as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the
Medical College of Virginia (1983–1986). He returned to Australia in 1986, moving to
Brisbane, where he currently directs the Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory at the
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (QIMR Berghofer). Since 1992, he has been an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Pathology (1993), Zoology (1996), and Psychology (2003) at the
University of Queensland, and Senior Principal Research Fellow at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. with more than 30 000 pairs enrolled. Martin has also "recruited over 3000 anorexia cases and over 20,000 depression cases. New projects are planned for stuttering and bipolar." == Research ==