Dr. Zammit is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta, where he defended his Ph.D. thesis on Shankara's Advaita Vedanta philosophy and its relevance to the contemporary Western philosophical impasse (2002).

A pioneer in introducing the study of Sanskrit (the language and its philosophical underpinnings) and the Advaita Vedanta Philosophy at the University of Malta, he also gives courses in general philosophy, Greek and Renaissance philosophies, and Indian and Far-Eastern thought to the Faculties of Art and Theology students. His interests vary from the use of poetic expression in the exploration of philosophical themes to the grammatological analysis of the Paninean Classical Sanskrit notions in light of contemporary continental philosophical concerns.

Working with the University radio station he has designed and presented various cycles of radio programs including readings and commentary sessions of the Bhagavad Gita that he translated from Sanskrit into Maltese that were published with Pubblikazzjoni Indipendenza, Malta (2008).

He is the author of, among other publications, Mireddien, a philosophical poem in Maltese in 56 mantras (also translated into Italian and published in Rome as Ombreggiature Silenziose, Editoria & Spettacolo, 2007), and translator of Plato's Apology (1997) and Vyasa's Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita (2008). Curved Silence, his most recent publication (2011), is a monograph for the ossified violin-sculpture of Mr. JP Azzopardi exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum in Valletta.

Michael lives in Lija together with spouse (Maria, a classicist) and sons Gabriel and Benjamin.