Rachel W. Martin is a Professor at the School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. (2002) in Chemistry at Yale University and her B.S. (1997) in Chemistry at Arizona State University. Before her current role, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002 to 2005. She has received numerous awards, including the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2005), and the NSF CAREER Award (2009), and was named an AAAS Fellow (2008). Her research interests include solid-state and solution NMR, protein structure, cataracts, membrane proteins, physical chemistry, and chemical biology.