Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University in the US state of Virginia. He is a member (and chair) currently and formerly of key criminology associations in the US and steering committees in the US and worldwide on topics of crime. Prof. Weisburd is a leading international researcher in the field of crime, law enforcement and the field of research methods and evaluation. He is also the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology. He was awarded the prestigious Stockholm Prize for Criminology, the The Klachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science (2012) and the Immigrant Absorption Minister's Prize for Distinguished Immigrant Scientists. Prof. Weisburd holds a Ph.D degree in sociology from Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, received in 1985.