Biography

• Visiting Professor of Physics Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical engineering Department,
• Northumbria University,
• Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, U.K

Mohammad M. Shabat received his B.Sc. in Physics from Al-Aazhar University, Cairo, Egypt in 1984 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Salford, the U.K. in 1990. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, from 1989 to 1992. In April 1992, he joined the Physics Department at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) as an Assistant Professor of physics. He became an Associate Professor in 1996 and a Professor of Physics in 2000. The period 2001-2005, he was the Vice President for Administrative Affairs at IUG and the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the IUG between 2009-2013. 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 Opto-electronics, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. He was a visiting scientist at Bochum University, Germany, in 1994; at the Institute National Polytechnic de Grenoble, (INPG), France, in 1995; at Salford University, U.K, in 1997; ICTP, Trieste, Italy, in 1996,1997 and 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004; Duisburg-Essen University, Germany, in1998, 1999 and 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006, and 2007; the Technical University of Warsaw in 2012; Frankfort University in 2012, 2020 and the Institute of Energy Research and Physical Technologies (IEPT) at the Clausthal Technical University (TUC) in 2015, 2018, 2019. From 2006-2008, Prof. Shabat was a visiting Professor at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. Professor Shabat received the "Galileo Galilei" Award from the International Commission of Optics (affiliated with ICSU and IUPAP) in 2006. He was the Vice President for the Research and Graduate Studies at the IUG between 2013-2015. Professor Shabat became the first Distinguished Professor in the IUG in 2011. He was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award, the Arab Fund Fellowship Program, Kuwait, 2007. He had been awarded the ISESCO Science Prize, in 2010. He published more than 400 papers in international journals in socio-physics, optical science, physics, mathematics, and education and presented many papers at local and international conferences. His research interests include solar cells, nonlinear optical sensors, Renewable Energy, optoelectronics, magnetostatic surface waves, numerical techniques, mesoscopic systems, energy, applied mathematics, Nanotechnology, and physics education. He supervised more than 40 postgraduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) in mathematics and physics at Palestinian, Sudanese, Algerian, and Egyptian universities. Recently he established a Palestinian Optical Society (POS). He is an external examiner for BSc examinations, M.Sc. dissertations, and Ph.D. theses in physics and mathematics at Palestinian and Egyptian universities.  He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the Optical Society of America, a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), and a fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS). He was a Commissioner of the Accreditation and Quality Commission, Ministry of Higher Education, Palestine, 2011- 2017,  a Member, Management Board, the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI University), Slovenia, Elected 2013, and a Member, the Senate, The Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI University), Slovenia, 2013-2019, Vice Chairman, the Senate, the Board of Trustee, University of Palestine, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 2014-2018, Member of the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics, Rome, Italy, 2013, Member of the Search Commission for the Post of President, the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI University), Slovenia, 2013, Member, and a member, Habilitation Commission, the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI University), Slovenia, 2013-2-19.