Alexander Farrugia is a mathematics senior lecturer at the University of Malta Junior College, a casual lecturer at the University of Malta, a researcher in linear algebra applied to various aspects of graph theory, with more than twenty publications, and the author of two books. He writes about mathematics on Quora, where he was recognized as a Top Writer in 2017 and 2018, with his writings garnering more than 18,000 followers and 28,000,000 views. Locally, he is in a team publishing a weekly science page on the Sunday Times of Malta newspaper. Moreover, he is on the Editorial Board of two journals and regularly reviews papers for numerous prestigious journals.