Martin works at the Environmental Health Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland, where he is heading a multidisciplinary research team interested in indoor exposures and associated health effects. His research has a focus on indoor microbial exposure assessment and on elucidating both beneficial and adverse health effects associated with indoor and environmental microbiota more broadly. At Aalto University, Department Civil Engineering, he is Visiting Scholar working on indoor environment and health topics.
He holds a PhD focused in Food and Biotechnology from University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna, Austria) and a Master of Science (MSc) in Microbiology from University of Vienna.