Haim Abramovich is Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.He has been at Technion since 1987, and currently is the head of the Aerospace Structures Laboratory. He possesses strong academic and professional experience, having also spent three years in industry and has also served as a Guest Professor at ETH Zurich Institut fur Leichtbau und Seilbahntechnik, Switzerland.Prof. Haim Abramovich has published and presented extensively, contributing more than 100 international refereed papers in high-impact journals. His main fields of interest are static and dynamic stability of thin walled structures, piezoelectric materials, laminated composite structures, dynamic buckling of thin walled structures, smart structures technologies, structural mechanics and energy harvesting using piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials.