Martin was a research assistant at the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in Germany. From 2016 till end of 2020 he was part of the interdisciplinary research project Integrated Infrastructure between Weimar and the EiABC, Addis Abeba University. The project focuses on digital planning and participation strategies for emerging cities in Ethiopia. Martin holds a bachelor degree in architecture at msa | münster school of architecture and graduated in the field of urbanism at TU Delft. Besides his research he is co-founder of form follows you. His main interest lays in easing stakeholder negotiation and participation with the support of computational planning tools.