Martin Embley

Thomas Martin Embley is a British scientist who is a professor at Newcastle University who has made contributions to the understanding of the origin of eukaryotes and the evolution of organelles such as mitochondria,^[3][4][5][6] mitosomes and hydrogenosomes, that are found in parasitic protists.^[1]

Martin Embley FRS FMedSci
Born	Thomas Martin Embley
Alma mater	Newcastle University (PhD)
Awards	EMBO Membership (2009)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Eukaryotes Evolution[2]
Institutions	Newcastle University North East London Polytechnic Natural History Museum, London[3]
Thesis	Aspects of the biology of Renibacterium salmoninarum (1983)
Website	research.ncl.ac.uk/microbial_eukaryotes/martinembley.html

In May 2021, Embley was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[7]

Education

Embley was educated at Newcastle University, where he was awarded a PhD on the biology of the bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum in 1983.^[8]