Received his B.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1983 from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University. Thesis subject "Analysis of Crack propagation Rate for a Plate Repaired by a Partially Bonded Composite Patch", supervised by Prof. Leslie Banks-Sills. His main activities include the design and substantiation of composite materials airborne structures, as well as the development of bonded composites repairs for aging aircraft. For the last twenty years, he has been involved in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems. In this capacity he has been an Investigator in quite a few EU-funded research programs including: SENARIO, SARISTU, VIBRATION and OPTICOMS. His SHM research and implementation is based on Optical Fiber Sensing Techniques tailored to the specific certification challenges of airborne structures.