Prof. Shabat born in Palestine in 1960. He received his BSc degree in Physics from Al-Azhar University, Egypt, in 1984; and PhD degree from the University of Salford, UK, in 1990. In 1992, he joined the Physics Department at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG). He became a Professor of Physics in 2000.He was awarded the Shoman Prize, Jordan, 1995; the Humboldt Research Fellowships in 1998, Germany "Galileo Galilei" Award, 2006 and ISSESCO Prize in Science, 2010. Prof. Shabat was a Visiting Professor at Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany. He is currently the Vice-President at the IUG. Prof. Shabat became Distinguished Professor in 2011. He published more than 240 papers. He is a fellow of TWAS and a senior member of IEEE.