MRDDF - Key Persons
Brian started his career at the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and held the post of FP6 Projects Coordinator and Research Assistant to the Policy Unit. Since then Brian has been responsible for sourcing and managing the scientific / administrative tasks for numerous R&D projects running under the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework programme; and under the Leonardo, Intelligent Energy, Interreg, and Plan D programmes. Here at MRDDf, Brian is entrusted with the role of providing a coherent approach for projects which PiM is involved in, while creating a link between the individual project managers responsible for the execution of all project deliverables and management. He is also responsible for establishing standard practices and procedures to be followed across all projects, while ensuring a smooth flow of the operations. He is also responsible for the CASTWATER project, and contributes towards the GPP4Growth project. Brian read for a PhD at the Institute of Earth Systems, UoM and his research interests are mostly in the area of environmental/conservation psychology and sustainable development.
Katia graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Malta in 1999 following which she was employed at STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd. During this time Katia worked in Quality Assurance providing support in quality related issues to the company's Set-Top-Box and DVD IC customers. Following a 3 month internship at ST Grenoble, France, Katia was responsible for the setup up of Advanced Failure Analysis Lab in the Malta plant. This included defect detection equipments such as hot spot analysis, EMMI, delayering and advanced SEM analysis. For a period of 2 years, Katia was also responsible for the STMicroelectronics(Malta) Reliability Laboratory that performed lifetime testing on the semiconductor devices and detection of infant mortality problems. Standard tools used to interface with the customers include the 8D methodology and report writing, FMEA, TOPS & SPC.
Job Titles:
- Scientist
- Senior Project Manager
Stefan is a political scientist and senior project manager. He is also a board member of MRDDF and an expert on sustainable resource management with a particular focus on the MED area.
Stefan has been involved in numerous EU-funded projects on sustainable development, resource management, education, and R&D. He is currently the local lead for the Interreg Europe project "Green Public Procurement for Resource Efficient Regional Growth". He has also been a country correspondent for Malta in the framework of various international studies on sustainable innovation.
Previously he worked at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences where he assisted in conducting research in the thematic fields International Relations and Political Theory, as well as Transnational Social Spaces and Multiple Citizenship in a Globalizing World.