Emilio Marin studied archeology and Latin philology at the University of Zagreb.  Between 1973 and 1986, he performed various tasks as a curator at the Archaeological Museum in Split, where he was deputy director of the museum between 1983 and 1988 and its director between 1988 and 2004. Emilio Marin was assistant professor at the Sorbonne in Paris between 1981 and 1983, visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, a visiting professor at the Sorbonne between 1990 and 1991, and a full professor at the University of Split from 1998. In 2002-2003 and 2014, he was again a visiting professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in 2015 and 2016, a visiting scientist at the University of Padua.  Since 2011, he has been a full professor of Roman and early Christian archeology at the Croatian Catholic University in Zagreb, between 2012 and 2020 he was vice-rector for international relations and, since 2020, a special advisor to the rector of the Croatian Catholic University.  Part of his career was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Holy See (between 2004-2011) and to the Sovereign Order of Knights of Malta (between 2005-2011). Emilio Marin is a member of many institutions and has received several honorary titles and awards. Since 7th March 2003 he is full foreign member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France. On 11th December 2012 he was appointed full member of the Pontificia Commissio de Sacra Archaeologia (Vatican). He is full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, correspondent member Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia (Vatican) and Real Academia de Buenas Letras (Barcelona), Member Société nationale des Antiquaires de France (Paris), correspondent member Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Berlin), member Comité promoteur des Congrès internationaux de l’Archéologie chrétienne (Vatican). He received an honorary degree of the University of Paris 12 (2005), Knight of Magistral Grace of the S.M.O. of Malta, Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell’Ordine di Pio IX, Grand-Croix of the Order Pro merito Melitensi, Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella della solidarietà italiana and Officier des Arts et Lettres of France. He is honorary citizen of the County of Dubrovnik and Neretva, of the Commune of Pučišća on the Island of Brač, of the City of Zagreb, Capital of Croatia.

Lifetime Achievement Awards: Grand-Prix of the Town of Metković for the archaeological discoveries at Narona, Grand-Prix of the County of Split and Dalmatia, Grand-Prix Frane Bulić for Social Sciences in Dalmatia, Grand-Prix of the City of Split in the occasion of the 70th birthday, Croatian National Lifetime Achievement Award for research in Humanities sponsored by the Croatian Parliament.