The bitter death of the Cambridge-born scientist in the Spanish train disaster Martha Shahbazi, a 41-year-old scientist from the University of Cambridge, who traveled to Spain to receive a prestigious award in the field of biological research, was among the 69 victims of the fatal train accident in the Toledo area. A prominent researcher who spent years of his life studying the secrets of embryo development and the reasons for the failure of human pregnancies, but his scientific trip to southern Spain never reached his destination.