Martin Embley  (Thomas) Martin Embley is a Professor at Newcastle University who has made contributions to our understanding of the origin of eukaryotes and the evolution of organelles such as mitochondria, mitosomes and hydrogenosomes, that are found in parasitic protists. Embley was educated at Newcastle University where he was awarded a PhD on the biology of the bacterium "Renibacterium salmoninarum" in 1983.