Sophie Geneviève Elisabeth Martin Benton is a Swiss biologist who is Professor and Director of the Department of Fundamental Microbiology at the University of Lausanne.

After graduating, Martin joined Daniel St Johnston at the University of Cambridge, where she investigated the molecular mechanism of cell polarisation and the localisation of mRNA.

[4] In 2007, Martin returned to the University of Lausanne, where she was made a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics.

[8] The fusion of cells is critical in fertilisation and development, and influences the formation of bone, tissue regeneration and cancer.

[9] Her ERC Consolidator grant was focused on cellular fusion in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a simple yeast model.