Werdegang:
Professur: 2011– for "Molecular Evolution" (C4), Universität Düsseldorf
1999–2011 for "Ecological Plant Physiology" (C4), Universität Düsseldorf
Habilitation: 1992, TU Braunschweig, Germany, venia legendi for the field of Botany
Postdoc: 1989–1999, Institut für Genetik, Universität Braunschweig
Postdoc: 1988–1989, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln
PhD: 1985–1988, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln
Diplom: 1985, Institut für Botanik, TU Hannover: Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Frühe Evolution, Ursprung des Lebens
Entstehung des Stoffwechsels durch H₂-abhängige CO₂-Reduktion an hydrothermalen Quellen auf der frühen Erde
Endosymbiose
Zellevolution
Genomevolution

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
Mitglied: European Molecular Biology Organization
Mitglied: American Academy for Microbiology

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
Auszeichnungen
2023 Motoo Kimura Award, Motoo Kimura Foundation for Evolutionary Biology
2021 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant (3rd)
2019 ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field
2018 Klüh Foundation Award for Science and Research
2017 Spiridion Brusina Medal, Croatian Society for Natural Sciences
2017 Distinguished Lectureship Award, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology
2015 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant (2nd)
2011 The Mindlin Lecture Award, University of Washington, USA
2009 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant (1st)
1998 Miescher-Ishida Prize of the International Society of Endocytobiology
1997 Technology Transfer Prize, Industrie und Handelskammer Braunschweig
1990 Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1989 Max-Planck postdoctoral stipen

Ehrungen
2022 Honorary Lifetime Member of the Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2020 Elected Fellow, Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
2019 Visiting Scientist, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2019 Elected Corresponding Foreign Member, Accademia delle Scienza di Bologna
2018 Visiting Scientist, Università Degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2018 Elected President, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2013 Visiting Professor, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal
2012 Elected Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation)
2008 Elected Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2006 Elected Fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology
2006–2009 Julius von Haast Fellow, New Zealand Ministry for Research, Science & Technology
2000–2007 Foreign Associate, CIAR Programme in Evolutionary Biology

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
Martin W, Cerff R: Prokaryotic features of a nucleus encoded enzyme: cDNA sequences for chloroplast and cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases from mustard (Sinapis alba). Eur. J. Biochem. 159:323–331 (1986).
Martin W, Brinkmann H, Savona C, Cerff R: Evidence for a chimaeric nature of nuclear genomes: Eubacterial origin of eukaryotic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:8692–8696 (1993).
Martin W, Stoebe B, Goremykin V, Hansmann S, Hasegawa M, Kowallik KV: Gene transfer to the nucleus and the evolution of chloroplasts. Nature 393:162–165 (1998).
Martin W, Müller M: The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote. Nature 392:37–41 (1998). 
Martin W, Rujan T, Richly E, Hansen A, Cornelsen S, Lins T, Leister D, Stoebe B, Hasegawa M, Penny D: Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 12246–12251 (2002). 
Martin W, Russell MJ: On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent. Phil. Trans Roy. Soc. Lond. B 362:1887–1925 (2007).
Nelson-Sathi S, Sousa FL, Röttger M, Lozada-Chávez N, Thiergart T, Janssen A, Bryant D, Landan G, Schönheit P, Siebers B, McInerney JO, Martin WF: Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria. Nature 517:77–80 (2015).
Ku C, Nelson-Sathi S, Roettger M, Sousa FL, Lockhart PJ, Bryant D, Hazkani-Covo E, McInerney JO, Landan GL, Martin WF: Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes. Nature 524:427–432 (2015).
Weiss MC, Sousa FL, Mrnjavac N, Neukirchen S, Röttger M, Nelson-Sathi S, Martin WF: The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor. Nature Microbiology 1:16116 (2016).   
Preiner M, Igarashi K, Muchowska KB, Yu M, Varma SJ, Kleinermanns K, Nobu MK, Kamagata Y, Tüysüz H, Moran J, Martin WF: A hydrogen dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism. Nature Ecol. Evol. 4:534–542 (2020).

Link zur Liste der gesamten Publikationen:
https://www.molevol.hhu.de/publikationen
Web of Science Researcher ID: O-5446-2015 https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/O-5446-2015
ORCID: 0000-0003-1478-6449 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1478-6449