Our research

Our six departments are active in various fields of research participating in numerous projects.

Biology

  • Applied biotechnology
  • Ecological assessment and monitoring
  • Marine ecology
  • Marine aquaculture
  • Marine pollution and environmental quality
  • Population genetics
  • Microbiology and Phycology

Chemistry

  • Green organic synthesis
  • Auxetic materials
  • Environmental chemistry
  • Supramolecular chemistry
  • Organic photochemistry 

Geosciences

  • Air quality, atmosphere and climate
  • Physical oceanography
  • Marine geology and seafloor surveying
  • Seismology and geophysics

Physics

  • Electromagnetics
  • Quantum research
  • Instrumentation
  • Astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology

Mathematics

  • Mathematical analysis and applications
  • Graph theory and combinatorics
  • Mathematical modelling and inverse problems
  • Mathematical physics

Statistics and Operations Research

  • Operations research
  • Probability
  • Financial risk models
  • Multivariate techniques and statistical models

Study with us

https://www.um.edu.mt/science/ourresearch/