Martin Brand is currently a professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in California, following faculty positions at the University and MRC labs in Cambridge, UK.

Brand has made major contributions to understanding the mechanisms of energy transformation and the mechanisms of energetic inefficiency and free-radical production and their roles in evolution, physiology, and the diseases of aging. His research focuses on mitochondrial and cellular production of reactive oxygen species and regulation of oxidative phosphorylation in signaling pathways, aging and pathology.

Martin Brand studied biochemistry at UMIST and Bristol University, as well as physiological chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed studies, appearing in prestigious journals including Nature, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cell Metabolism, Diabetes, Aging Cell and The Journal of Biological Chemistry.