Prof. Eur. Ing. Nicholas Sammut defended his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Malta in 2006 after developing a critical core system for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). He is known for setting up the national cooperation agreement between Malta and CERN and the national cooperation agreement between Malta and the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as several other institutional collaborations that enabled participation in the development of research infrastructures like the Swiss Light Source, the Swiss X-Ray Free Electron Laser, ITER and the South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies amongst others.
Prof. Sammut also contributed to a wide range of international boards including the EU Competitiveness Council, Euratom, European Research Area and Innovation Committee (ERAC), the European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UN-CSTD), the Fusion for Energy Governing Board (F4E), the Joint Research Centre Governing Board (JRC), the European Space Agency Governing Board (ESA), the Committee on the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) and several others.
Locally, he is also known for turning around and boosting the national science, technology, research and innovation council and for launching the national interactive science center (Esplora).
Prof. Sammut’s research interests mostly include: accelerator technology; instrumentation and measurement of magnetic devices, and; microsystems amongst others. He has raised over 35 million Euros in funding and gained access to equipment and infrastructure costing 8.5 billion Euros through the collaborations and agreement that he set up. He is author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications; has supervised many masters and Ph.D. students; has delivered several invited international presentations, and; has edited a number of academic journal special issues.
He served as the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of ICT and is currently heading the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the University of Malta.
Prof. Sammut also holds a master’s degree in Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship from the University of Malta.
Accelerator Technology
Applied Superconductivity
Instrumentation and Measurement
Microsystems
Computational and Experimental Thermomechanical Analysis
Science, Technology, Research and Innovation Policy