Martin L. Hibberd is Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases (since 2012) and Head of the Department of Infection Biology (since 2022) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has adjunct positions at University of the Philippines, Manila, in Human Genetics (at NIH) and the Genome Institute of Singapore (where he was previously associate director from 2003 to 2016). He also has a visiting position at the Philippine Genome Centre.

Martin graduated in Applied Biology from Brunel University, London in 1985 and worked in the (then) Public Health Laboratory Service, both at Porton Down, at Centre for Applied Microbiology & Research, (Legionella Reference Laboratory) and Central Public Health Laboratory Colindale (Enteric Pathogens). He later received his Doctorate on the immune-genetics of the human T-cell antigen receptor at King’s College, London in 1994 and obtained a lectureship in Paediatric Infectious Disease at Imperial College, London, in 1996.

In 2003 Martin moved to the Genome Institute in Singapore (GIS) where he developed Human Genetic and Infectious Disease work to become associate director and senior group leader for Infectious Disease. He then joined LSHTM in 2012 and is now Head of the Department of Infection Biology.

Some of Martin's previous achievements include: the first comprehensive Genome Wide Association Studies of infectious diseases, the initiation of transcriptomic host response diagnostics for infectious diseases and pathophysiology descriptions of both host and pathogen in diseases such as dengue and TB, particularly in relation to clinical trials.

He has over 250 journal publications, and 25,000 citations, reflecting a broad interest in both infectious agents, and the human host responses that they initiate. A very active lecturer on LSHTM MSc programmes, Martin is also an expert contributor to The Lancet, The Guardian, The Times and BBC.