Mohammad M. Shabat, was born in Palestine.  He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Al-Aazhar University, Egypt in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Salford, U.K., 1990. He was a Research Fellow at Manchester university, 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 a Professor of Physics in 2000. In the period 2001-2005, he was the Vice President for Administrative Affairs at IUG and the Vice President for the Academic Affairs at the IUG between 2009-2013. He was awarded the Shoman Prize (Jordan) in 1995, and the Humboldt Research Fellowships in 1998-99 at Germany. He was a visiting scientist at German, Polish, French, American, and Italian universities. Prof.Shabat was a visiting Professor in Max Planck Institute, Germany. Professor Shabat had received "Galileo Galilei" Award in 2006. Professor Shabat became distinguished  professor in the IUG, 2011. He was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award, Kuwait, 2007. He had been awarded the ISESCO Science Prize, 2010, and the TWAS Prize for 2016. Egypt, 2016. He published more than 330 papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests include renewable Energy, opto-electronics. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of the Optical Society of America and fellow of TWAS and Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS).