Charles Sammut holds a BA in Education from University of Malta (UM), a BSc in Physics with Physical Electronics (First Class Honours in 1987 and awarded the British Aerospace Prize for Physics) and a PhD in the field of microwave semiconductor devices (1992) from the University of Bath, UK, from where he received the Deryck Chesterman for outstanding research leading to his PhD. He is currently Professor at the Department of Physics, UM, which he headed 1997-2000 and 2007-2019, when he was also Dean of the Faculty of Science. He leads the Electromagnetics Research Group which he established in 2010. His current research interests include: dielectric spectroscopy of biological tissues for medical applications; microwave measurements; computational electromagnetics; antenna design; exposure of workers and the general public to non-ionising electromagnetic fields; biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields, and has published extensively on these topics.