Martin Maiden (microbiologist)

Martin Christopher James Maiden^[2] is an English microbiologist. He is Head of Department and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, where he is also a fellow of Hertford College.^[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2010, a Fellow of the Society of Biology in 2012,^[1] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology, both in 2016.^[3][4]

Professor Martin Maiden FMedSci FRCPath FRSB
Born	Martin Christopher James Maiden
Nationality	English
Education	University of Reading
Known for	Multilocus sequence typing
Awards	Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Microbiology
Thesis	Arabinose-proton symport in escherichia coli  (1986)
Academic advisors	Peter Henderson[1]

He is widely known as a developer of method of molecular typing of bacteria MLST.^{[citation needed]}