Martyn is a chemist by training, and spent 8 years working in condensed matter physics before moving into computational biology. His first introduction to structural biology was working for CCP4 as a programmer for macromolecular crystallography at Daresbury Laboratory. He has provided several major developments to the CCP4 software suite, including the widely used TLS refinement in Refmac, and the automated Molecular Replacement pipelines MrBUMP and AMPLE. He has since broadened his interests to other experiment types (e.g. cryoEM and neutron reflectometry), as well as macromolecular modelling and simulation techniques, with a particular connection to high performance computing (CCPBioSim). As well as traditional HPC, he is also interested in data-intensive applications in biology, including next generation sequencing and omics. He helped to create CCP-EM in 2012, and is PI on the supporting MRC grants. Now based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, he leads the Computational Biology theme at STFC Scientific Computing, covering the work of around 35 staff scientists.
