Martin serves as Head of Translational Research in AI at Digital Science and manages an agil team of AI engineers and Data Scientists with the mission to translate latest developments in AI, NLP and CL into use cases for the DS portfolio companies. He also serves as a member of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group committee of AI experts. Prior to Digital Science, Martin was the CTO and Head of Technology at e.Consult AG, a German Legal Tech company to which he also was founder and shareholder and served them as member of the supervisory board for 13 years. Prior to e.Consult AG he served as Chief Technology Officer of Collexis Holdings Inc. SC USA, which was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 2010. While at Collexis, Martin was responsible for the core products and innovations mainly in knowledge management and discovery for the life science and biomedical markets. Prior to Collexis, he was founder, shareholder and managing director of SyynX Solutions GmbH, which was acquired by Collexis Holdings in 2009. With SyynX, Martin invented the largest professional social network for the life sciences community to that time „BiomedExperts“ which reached approx. 500.000 members within one year in 2008. Besides his profession in AI, NLP and innovations he always was and still is an enthusiastic musician in avant-garde/free jazz and contemporary classical music and a passionated amateur astronomer and photographer.