Faculty of Science

Biology

• Fisheries Biology and Marine Aquaculture;
• Marine Pollution and Environmental quality;
• Biology of Local Flora and Fauna;
• Marine and Terrestrial Ecology;
• Population Genetics;
• Conservation Biology;
• Biological activity of Phytochemicals.

Research Projects:
MonItaMal (Interreg IIIA Italy-Malta): Sviluppo di un sistema di monitoraggio della qualità ambientale: valutazione dei livelli di contaminazione nelle diverse matrici marine (acque, sedimenti, biota) e dei rischi per la biodiversità marina costiera;
AReef (Artificial Reef research) Environmental Initiatives in Partnership with MEPA (Malta Environment and Planning Authority);
PORTAL (PORT surveys in the Mediterranean Sea for ship-transported ALien organisms) in collaboration with CIESM (International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea);
EMPAFISH (European Marine Protected Areas as tools for FISHeries management and conservation) as part of 6th Framework Programme of the Commission of the European Communities (EU);
BENSPEFISH (Benthic Secondary Production and Essential Fish Habitats in the Malta FMZ) in collaboration with the Malta Centre for Fisheries Sciences;
Joint research projects on the palaeoenvironment and palaeoecology of the Maltese Islands in collaboration with QUB.

Chemistry

• Chemical Metrology;
• Trace metal analysis;
• Environmental chemistry;
• Photochemically-induced electron transfer reactions in organic chemistry;
• Polymers;
• Colloids and Interfaces;
• Molecular modelling;
• Materials modelling (auxetic and negative thermal expansion materials);
• Transition metal and lanthanide complexes;
• Homogeneous catalysis;
• Aspects of Science, Technology and society.

Research Projects:
CHISMACOMB: An FP6 project aimed at developing a new concept of cellular chiral material having Negative Poisson's ratio with enhanced mechanical and dielectric properties, able to include in its microstructure and sensor and actuators to be implemented in innovative smart sandwich structures;
COST (EU Project D24/D40) Homogeneous catalysis: An EU funded cooperation project related to transition metal chiral catalysis;
Modelling of Negative Materials: A nationally funded RTDI project aimed at modeling systems which exhibit negative Poisson's ratios and/or negative thermal expansion;
ResIST: An FP6 STREP project led by University of Oxford aimed at Resisting Inequalities created by Science and technology in today's world. Other team members include universities from the UK, South Africa, Portugal, Mozambique and the USA;
TAQC-WFD short courses- Short training courses in Europe for Euromed participants in the new EC Water Framework Directive.

Mathematics

• Algebraic Graph Theory;
• Error Correcting Codes;
• General Topology;
• Quantum Logics;
• General Relativity;
• The Finite Element Method.

Research Projects:
Participation in Euratom, the EU's programme on Magnetically Confined Thermonuclear Fusion. A group of Maltese academics will participate in research on nuclear fusion under the auspices of Euratom.

Physics

• Earth Science: Geophysics, Seismology and Atmospheric Physics;
• Solid State Devices and Instrumentation: High Frequency (microwave to sub-millimetre) Solid State Devices and Sub-systems;
• Alternative Energy Devices and Applications.

Research Projects:
Malta's National Climate Change Project.

Statistics & Operations Research

• Stochastic Integration;
• Stochastic Differential Equations;
• GLM's;
• Statistical Modeling;
• Latent Class Models;
• Survival Analysis;
• Missing Data;
• Sampling;
• Diffusions;
• Structural Equation Modeling;
• Bayesian Statistics;
• Stochastic Optimal Control;
• Stochastic Processes in Finance and Acturial Studies;
• Empirical Processes.