Assoc. Prof. Mahmood Jabareen received his bachelor degree in structural engineering from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the Technion-IIT. Then he continued his studies and earned MSc and PhD degrees in structural engineering from the CEE at the Technion – IIT. After spending one and half year at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion – IIT for a postdoctoral research, he pursued a second postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Technion’s Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering.