Maltese, is Senior Lecturer at the Physical Oceanography Unit of the IOI-Malta Operational Centre of the University of Malta. He held a Phd in biology and he is registered at the bar of the Biology Institute of London. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed papers in several high-profile academic journals and has coordinated the marine ecology section of numerous recent Environmental Baseline Study (EBS), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Appropriate Assessment (AA) studies. The main thematics which interest him are costal and marine ecology, ecological modeling, remote sensing monitoring of water quality, ecology of islands, ecology of invasive species, Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s), Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and dynamics of jellyfish outbreaks. He is scientific advisor to a number of environmental NGO’s and also member of the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and of the Estaurine, Coastal and Shelf Science Association (ECSA) of the UK, and of the Società di Biologia Marina of Italy (SIBM).