[4] He is editor-in-chief of 4OR, the joint official journal of the Belgian, French, and Italian Operations Research Societies.

[8] Martello graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in Electronic Engineering in 1973.

From 1990 to 1994 he was a full professor of Operations Research and Management Science at the University of Turin.

He is the co-author, with Paolo Toth, of the book Knapsack problems: Algorithms and Computer implementations (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1990).

[12] He also co-authored, with Rainer Burkard and Mauro dell'Amico, the book Assignment Problems (SIAM, 2009).