Martin Heeney is a Professor of Chemical Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and received his PhD from the same institution in 1999. Following an industrial postdoc, he joined Merck Chemicals in 2000, eventually becoming project leader for the organic electronics team. He made the move to academia in 2007, joining the Materials Department at Queen Mary University of London as a senior lecturer. In 2009 he moved across London to join the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London. He joined KAUST in 2022. His research interests include the design, synthesis and characterisation of conjugated materials for a variety of applications. He has published over 400 research papers, 5 book chapters and over 100 patents. He has been named five times by Thomson Reuters as a HighlyCited researcher in the field of Materials Science, is a recipient of the RSC Corday-Morgan (2013) medal, the RSC Peter Day (2020) award and the Macro group UK medal (2020).