Manuel Martín Martín graduated in Geological Sciences from the University of Granada in 1990. He obtained a research grant from the FPI plan of the Ministry of Education and Science (1993-1996) and received his doctorate from the University of Granada in 1996, having studied the Tertiary of Maláguide Domain in Sierra Espuña (Bética Internal Zones). He obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the FPI plan of the Ministry of Education and Science (1997-1998) to study the Paleogene of the Corbiéres and Minervois sector (SE, France) at the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (France). During the years 1998 to 2000 p.p. had a contract as a part-time associate professor at the University of Alicante. This contract was combined with a contract for reincorporation of doctors in the IACT-CSIC in the year 2000. From the end of the year 2000 he became Assistant Professor followed by Interim Professor until 2002 at the same university. Since July 2002 to september 2021 he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Alicante at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Internal Geodynamics area). In september 2021 he became University Professor. Currently he is working on the tectono-sedimentary evolution of Cenozoic basins. He has been Main Researcher of the Group of the University of Alicante: "Geodynamic evolution of the eastern Betic mountain range and the Alicante marine platform" until september 2021. From september 2021 he became Main Resercher from the Research Project MINECO PID2020-114381GB-I00 "Tectono-depositional evolution of cenozoic sedimentary basins: 2D-3D characterization and enhancement of standard pattern".