Hugh Martin

Dr Hugh Martin is an experienced manager of research projects, centres, and small enterprises, with a multidisciplinary background spanning computational science, biomedicine, and scientific communication. Before joining the University of Cumbria as Research Hub Manager for the PCSM Research Hub, he held senior management roles at University College London’s Centre for Computational Science and led CBK Sci Con Ltd, an SME supporting science and technology initiatives.

Dr Martin has supported the successful bidding and delivery of over £70 million in research funding across major UKRI and EU programmes, including projects and centres of excellence such as CompBioMed, VECMA, ComPat, and SEAVEA. His expertise includes project coordination, centre operations, dissemination planning, and stakeholder engagement, alongside extensive experience in organising large-scale events and managing communications across digital and social platforms.

He holds an MSci in Chemistry and a PhD in Computational Biological Chemistry from UCL, with published work in Nano Letters, JACS, and Nature Methods, among others. He is committed to enabling effective, collaborative and impactful research.