Gabriel "Gabi" Weimann is an Emeritus Professor of Communications at the University of Haifa and a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Weimann is known for having begun to track and study terrorist websites in the mid 1990s, "long before most analysts were aware of the problem." His 9 books, papers and research reports have been published in scientific journals and books. He received numerous grants and awards from international foundations and was a visiting professor at various universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Hofstra University, American University, University of Maryland, and Lehigh University (USA), University of Mainz and LMU Munich (Germany), Carleton University (Canada), and the National University of Singapore.