Martin Hawes

Martin originally trained as a hospital pharmacist before moving to the pharmaceutical industry, where he spent 20 years in human drug discovery and development.  In 2012, he took a career break to read veterinary medicine, and graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 2016.  Martin worked as a companion animal vet before joining the University of Surrey in 2018 part-time to teach veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics. Martin was awarded the British Pharmacological Society Student Choice Award for Excellence in Pharmacology Teaching in 2021 and the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Amoroso Award for Teaching in 2022. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In addition to his role at Surrey, Martin is a Visiting Associate Professorial Teaching Fellow at Aston University and a Resident of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology.