Marko received his PhD in Biophysics studying proteins responsible for cell division on the single molecule level at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.

After leading an iGEM team he decided to pursue research in Synthetic Biology and joined Imperial College London to build foundational tools for automated DNA assembly and next generation directed evolution systems. He won a Marie Curie Fellowship and multiple grants to support his work in automated Synthetic Biology and technology transfer projects.

He then joined the London Biofoundry to lead projects in Synthetic Biology and the implementation of automated workflows in collaboration with partners

in academia and industry.