Martin C. J. Maiden

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]

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