During his undergraduate studies in the general chemistry programme at UCT, Martin decided to direct his career into the application rather than the scientific sphere, although research and development remained his primary focus. During his studies, he participated in projects for industrial companies, which was the subject of both of his final theses defended at UCT. After completing his Master's degree and an internship in Ecuador, he joined the Research Centre Řež as an R&D worker, and he was engaged in scientific research support for conventional and nuclear power plants in the field of chemistry in the form of grant and commercial projects. After 6 years he moved from the research sphere to the implementation team where he was attracted by the potential commercialization of scientific results and their application in practice.

In his current position at NUM Solution, he is responsible for business development and project management in the field of chemistry and pharmaceuticals. This position involves coordinating the entire project lifecycle, from finding technology challenges and potential clients, to designing solutions and communicating practical requirements to the programmers handling mathematical simulations, and finally to the finished product and interpreting the results back to the client. In his position, Martin works closely with the management team to help the strategic development of the company in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. He is responsible for both short-term consulting assignments and long-term projects based on close collaboration with the client's team. 

By joining the mentoring program, Martin would like to keep in touch with the university as an institution and its students, who he sees as having great potential. He sees the opportunity to collaborate as a way to give something back to a place that has given him so much in return. "I would also like to support my mentee in what I lacked at uni- contact with industry and seeing the possibilities of research applications. To get away from what the academia sets for you as goals, and what their hierarchy of values are. I saw teaching as a bit of a form of competition, but it's not always about the same things as in real life."