Martin completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Sheffield, obtaining an undergraduate degree in Psychology in 2005 and a Master’s degree in Psychological Research Methods in 2015. Martin also spent eight years working as an A level Psychology teacher and examiner, developing and delivering content on a variety of Psychological topics, such as: Biopsychology, Sports Psychology and Forensic Psychology . Martin completed a PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Enrico Bracci at the University of Sheffield in 2018, where he developed techniques to investigate output of the basal ganglia using multi-electrode array technology. His PhD examined the extrinsic modulation of ventral pallidum neurons by dopamine and serotonin, parts of which were recently published in the journal Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. His main current interest is in the brain circuits of reward and pleasure and he is currently investigating how the interaction between dopamine and serotonin may modulate the ventral pallidum and our experience of pleasure and reward.