Nick Martin (scientist)
| Nicholas Gordon (Nick) Martin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 February 1950 Adelaide, Australia |
| Residence | Australia |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide, University of Birmingham |
| Known for | Application of SEM to Behavioral Genetics; Molecular genetics; Genetics of values |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Behavioural genetics |
| Institutions | Queensland Institute of Medical Research |
| Doctoral advisor | Lindon Eaves |
| Influences | Ronald Fisher |
Nicholas Gordon (Nick) Martin (born 14 February 1950) is a leading behavior geneticist who has published over 1000 peer-reviewed articles on topics as diverse as the heritability of religion and intelligence to medical disorders such as endometriosis. This work has had a broad impact, reflected in the fact that Martin is among the most cited medical scientists in the Southern Hemisphere, with a number of citation classics including "Genes, culture and personality: An empirical approach" that he co-authored with Lindon Eaves and Hans Eysenck (cited over 600 times), "Analysis of the p16 gene (CDKN2) as a candidate for the chromosome 9p melanoma susceptibility locus" (Nature; cited over 460 times), and "Genetic and environmental contributions to alcohol dependence risk in a national twin sample" (cited over 400 times).
Martin studied at the University of Adelaide. In 1972 he established a sample of twins in Adelaide while completing his honours thesis.
Martin moved to the United Kingdom to complete a PhD in 1977 under Lindon Eaves at University of Birmingham, the then centre of a remarkably productive period in the history of genetics. After working as a research fellow at the Department of Genetics of the University of Birmingham (1976–1978) and at the Department of Population Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University (1978–1983), he took a post as an assistant professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the Medical College of Virginia (1983–1986). He returned to Australia in 1986, moving to Brisbane where he currently directs the Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). Since 1992, he has been an adjunct professor in the Departments of Pathology (1993), Zoology (1996), and Psychology (2003) at the University of Queensland, and senior principal research fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
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