Dr. Dalit Shach-Pinsly is an architect and urban designer who received her Ph.D at the Technion–IIT. She is currently a researcher and lecturer at the Technion–IIT. She is a Partner Investigator in the H2020-MG-9.2-2014 MIND-SETS -Mobility Innovations for a New Dawn in Sustainable Transport Systems. She is participating in the EU FP7 TUD COST Action TU1305 as the co-initiator and MC member together with Prof. Plaut (coordinator). She was a senior researcher of FP7-DESURBS. Formerly she joined the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington as a post-doctoral fellow sponsored by the competitive Marie Curie EU IOF Fellowship (2008-2011). Her research deals with measuring and evaluating diverse qualitative aspects of the urban environment, such as privacy, security and safety.