She remained at the University of Queensland until 2015, supported by several other fellowships: an Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellowship in 1999, and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship in 2007. In 2009, Martin was one of just 15 researchers, and only two women, to receive an inaugural ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship. In 2016, Martin was appointed Director of the Eskitis Drug Discovery Institute at Griffith University, which hosts unique drug discovery resources including Compounds Australia and NatureBank Since returning to Australia and establishing her own research group, Martin has continued working on DSB proteins and with collaborators is now developing inhibitors of these bacterial proteins as a potential means of combatting antibiotic resistance. She also began working on other proteins including phenylethanolamine N-methyl transferase (PNMT), an enzyme that catalyses adrenaline synthesis. Martin published the structure of this enzyme and later, as part of her ongoing research into different PNMT substrate-bound complexes, she and her team became the first remote access user of the Australian Synchrotron. Over the past 10 years, she and her team have also contributed significantly to the structural biology of membrane fusion, a fundamentally important process that underpins systems as diverse as neurotransmission and blood glucose control. She wrote an invited commentary for The Conversation in 2013 on this topic, and was invited to present a keynote lecture on her membrane fusion research at the 23rd triennial International Union of Crystallography Congress held in Montreal in 2014. In March 2019 Martin joined the University of Wollongong as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation).. She stepped down from the role in June 2022. Honours and leadership roles In addition to the research fellowships she has been awarded during her career, Martin has also received several honours in recognition of her professional contributions including: 2005 Roche Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2005 Queensland Government Smart Women Smart State Award (Research Scientist Category) 2006 Women in Biotech Outstanding Biotechnology Researcher Award 2007 Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture, Oxford 2007 Honorary Life Membership, Questacon (National Science and Technology Centre), Canberra 2010 Lady Masson Lecture, The University of Melbourne 2011 Women in Technology Outstanding Biotechnology Achievement 2015 Finalist, Newscorp QLD Pride of Australia Inspiration Category 2015 Finalist, NAB Women's Agenda, Mentor of the Year 2016, Finalist, Queensland Telstra Business Women of the Year, Public Sector and Academia 2017, Wunderly Oration and Medal, Thoracic