Martin Chung is an Associate Professor and Programme Coordinator of BA/BSSC Broad-based Admission at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He has also held visiting research and teaching positions at Queen's University Belfast, University College Dublin, the University of Bonn, and Sciences Po Bordeaux. He holds a PhD from the University of Hong Kong (2014) and a master's degree in European Studies from the University of Macau (2008). Previously, he was Research Assistant Professor of the European Union Academic Programme Hong Kong, and a lecturer at the University of St. Joseph (Macau).

His first monograph, Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past (Cornell University Press 2017) explores the role of religious ideas in German Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The book is recommended as a resource for Holocaust education by Yeshiva University Libraries in New York. In Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective (Routledge 2017, co-edited with Annika Frieberg), he analyses the ideas of apology and confession in Chinese and European contexts and the problem of their political application at present. His articles have appeared in Parliamentary Affairs, International Journal of Transitional Justice, British Politics, Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts and Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte. His comparative study, "Twenty Years after: Statute of Limitations and the Asymmetric Burdens of Justice in Northern Ireland and Post-war Germany" (2021), has been selected by the Hansard Society to be included in the Parliamentary Affairs special collection, "Marking 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement".

Chung is the principal investigator of two projects funded by Hong Kong's Research Grants Council: "Reconciliation and Its Resentments: The Suppression of Justice and Truth Recovery in Germany, Northern Ireland, and Western Balkans" (2023-2026) under the General Research Fund (GRF, 優配研究金) scheme, and "The Politics of Antagonism Revisited: Assessing Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement (1998-2018)" (2018-2022) under the Early Career Scheme (ECS, 傑出青年學者計劃).