Prof. Micallef received the PhD in Electrical Engineering (Microgrids) from the University of Malta (Malta) in 2015. Since 2022, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Malta. In 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering (formerly known as the Department of Industrial Electrical Power Conversion) as an Assistant Lecturer. He was promoted to Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in 2015 and 2020 respectively, with the same department. Since 2015, he is a guest lecturer with the Centre for Research on Microgrids in a PhD course on "Power Quality in AC Microgrids". In 2012, he was a visiting PhD student at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He was listed by Stanford University among the top 2% of the world’s scientists in 2021 and 2022.

Prof. Micallef is currently the technical coordinator for 3 projects: DISTRICT(SINO-MALTA-2023-01), RIVIERA (UM Research Excellence Grant 2021) and ATLANTES (funded through “Setting up of transdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange (TRAKE) complex at the University of Malta (ERDF.01.124)” which is co-financed through the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund 2014 – 2020).

Prof. Micallef has published 40+ peer-reviewed papers on microgrids, electrical transportation, zero energy buildings and power quality. In 2019, he was elevated to a Senior Member of the IEEE. Prof. Micallef is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and IET Smart Grid . He is currently the Vice chair of the IEEE Malta Section. He was also the chair of the Technical Subcommittee on Smart Buildings and Customer Systems within the IEEE PES Technical Committee on Smart Buildings, Loads and Customer Systems (IEEE PES SBLCS) .

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