Prof. Mohammad Shabat, a Professor of Physics at IUG, has got the confidence of International Institute for Physics, to be the first Arab scientist referee in Galileo Award panel in optics.
Prof. Shabat has won the ICO Galileo Galilei Award 2006 for his many contributions to optics and photonics.
Prof. Shabat, was born in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Palestine in 1960. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Al-Aazhar University, Cairo, Egypt in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Salford, U.K. in 1990. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, from 1989 to1992. In April 1992, he joined the IUG as an Assistant Professor of physics. IUG is the first higher education institution to be established in Gaza Strip.
In the period 1993-1997, he was the Dean, Faculty of Science, and in the period 2001-2005, he was IUG Vice President for Administrative Affairs. He was awarded the Shoman Prize for a Young Arab Scientist (Jordan) in 1995, and the Humboldt Research Fellowships in 1998-99 at the Center of Semiconductor Technology and Optoelectronics, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany.
Since 1994 M. Shabat has been a visiting scientist in various institutes, universities and research laboratories: Bochum University, Germany; the Institute National Polytechnic de Grenoble, (INPG), France; Salford University, U.K; International Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP), Trieste, Italy and Duisburg-Essen University, Germany among the most significant to his carrier.
Prof. Shabat has been very active in the international projection of Palestinian science. In 1997, he became associate Member of the ICTP. He was member of Palestinian delegation to the 44th meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, September 2000.
Prof. Shabat was elected in 2004 fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing Countries (TWAS). He has been a committee member of the Shoman Prize for the Arab Young Researcher in 2006. He is a member of the Palestinian Physical Society and the Palestinian Society for Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
Professor Shabat is the first scientist from the Arab World winning the Galileo Galilei Award and to be a member of referee panel for Galileo Award in optics since its establishment in 1993.
