Martin grew up near Ljubljana, Slovenia, before leaving for the UK for his undergraduate studies at Imperial College London. He completed his master's project in the group of Professor Matthew J. Fuchter, working on novel azoheteroarenes. He is in his third year of the SBM CDT, and is undertaking a joint computational and experimental project in the Langton and Duarte groups. In his spare time Martin is passionate about music, cooking, and reading fiction.