Martino has studied Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. For his Master Thesis he studied how the synaptic transcriptome changes over time in the mouse cortex. He then joined the Vastenhouw Laboratory for his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden. He has studied the spatial organization of transcription in the nucleus using the early development of the zebrafish as a model, and will continue doing so here at CIG.