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HAGIT MESSER YARON received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University (TAU), ISRAEL, and after a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, she joined the faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University in 1986, where she is currently Professor Emerita in the school of Electrical Engineering. Over the years she has held leading positions, including the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Science, the Vice President for Research at TAU, the President of the Open University, and the Vice Chair of the Council of Higher Education, Israel. She was also co-founder of a startup company ClimaCell (2016).

Dr. Xhahysa studied Civil Engineering (2008-2012) at EPOKA University. She completed her PhD in 2020 in Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey, as a recipient of the Turkiye Burslari Scholarship. Her studies consisted in seismic strengthening of old structures and development of a new self-centering brace, that can avoid peak floor accelerations and be more redundant than previous models. From 2015 – 2018 she worked as a Structural Engineer at the Construction Institute of Albania. She started work at IGEO in March 2021, and currently is the Head of the Seismology Department. Dr. Anila research areas are: Structural engineering, strengthening of existing structures, resilient buildings, self-centering structural elements, strong ground motion data analysis and seismic hazard.