Martin J. Booth read for a degree in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. His doctoral work in adaptive optics for confocal microscopy took place in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. In 2001, he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford, and, in 2003, was appointed a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellow. In 2007, he was awarded a five-year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship. He became a Professor of Engineering Science in 2014. His research interests focus on the development of new dynamic optical methods for applications ranging from biomedical imaging to laser-based manufacturing. In 2023, he was appointed as the Department’s new Chair of Optical and Photonic Engineering. His scientific output includes 305 publications, corresponding to 9178 citations (h-index 51) (Scopus, 19 October 2023).