Dr Gianmarco Alberti is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminology, University of Malta. He has authored more than 30 papers published in various journals, as well as two monographs and open-access software for spatial statistics and multivariate analysis. He specialises in applying data analysis across diverse fields, from archaeology to criminology. His research interests focus on Geographic Information Science (GIS), spatial analysis, 3D modelling, statistical modelling, and on statistics applied to social science data, with a focus on dimensionality-reduction techniques (Correspondence Analysis in particular). His pedagogical expertise spans various levels, including Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral programmes, in multiple disciplines and institutions.

Reuben Grima is associate professor in the Department of Conservation and Built Heritage at the University of Malta, where he coordinates a taught MA programme in Cultural Heritage Management. He read for his PhD in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, while holding a Commonwealth Scholarship. From 2003 to 2011, he served as Heritage Malta’s Senior Curator responsible for Malta’s two prehistoric World Heritage Sites. Between 2015 and 2020, he was a member of the FRAGSUS project, funded by the European Research Council to investigate fragility and stability in restricted island environments. In 2022, while holding a Shortland-Jones Fellowship at the British School at Rome, he pursued research on early modern antiquarian networks between Malta and Rome. His current research interests include cultural landscapes, the history of archaeology and archaeological sites, and public engagement with the past.

Nicholas Vella is Professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta, and works on Mediterranean history and archaeology. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London).

Kurt Xerri is a resident Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Malta . His area of expertise is housing and property. His lecturing portfolio includes property law, contract law, lease and securities. He completed his doctoral studies at the at the UNESCO Housing Chair at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain where he presented his doctoral thesis on the regulation of private rental markets in Southern Europe.  He has acted as an advisor to the Maltese Government in the regulation of the private rental market and participated in an advisory group that worked on aligning Malta's controlled rent regime with European Court of Human Rights standards. He has also acted recently as a national expert for the Department of the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

David Edward Zammit is associate professor and heads the Department of Civil Law at the University of Malta, where he is also the founding director of the University of Malta Law Clinic. He read for his LL.D. degree at the University of Malta and for his Ph.D. in Legal Anthropology at the University of Durham (UK). In 2007 he visited the University of Villanova Law School in the US for four months as a Fulbright Scholar. He has acted as Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bologna’s Ravenna Campus and at the University of Teramo. From 1997 until 2013 he was Executive Editor of the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights. His field of research includes comparative law, migration and asylum, tort law and human rights, clinical legal education, law and narrative and the anthropology of Southern Europe. He is a fellow of the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law, and Vice President of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists. His publications include papers on court delays, legal representation in Malta, labour migration in the Mediterranean and the vernacularisation of Asylum Law in Malta.