Martin received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Thomson, FRS. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada. In 1975, he moved to the University of Western Ontario, where since 1986 he has been Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry. He is currently Bioinorganic Section Editor-in-Chief with the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Martin Stillman is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry. He is the founding Chair of the CanBIC series of Bioinorganic Conferences held in Parry Sound, Ontario every 2 years beginning in 2007. He has published over 250 papers.