Markel Baballëku graduated as a structural engineer in 2001 from the Civil Engineering Faculty at the Polytechnic University of Tirana. In 2006 completed his master's thesis on "Vulnerability assessment of facility buildings in Albania - school RC buildings" in the Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology Institute (ISIIZ) Skopje. In 2015 completed his PhD studies with the thesis "Damage assessment of typified educational facility buildings - Masonry structures". From 2001 to 2009, he worked as a full-time scientific researcher in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Seismological Institute of the Academy of Science in Albania. Since 2009 has been a lecturer in the Structural Mechanics Department at the Civil Engineering Faculty, teaching "Dynamic of Structures and Earthquake Engineering". His latest activities are related to the assessment and retrofitting of damaged structures following the November 26, 2019 earthquake, as well as seismic risk assessment.