Dr. Antonio Pardo Martínez, born in 1967, has been an associate professor at the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Barcelona (UB) since 2005. He received his diploma in physics in 1991 and his Ph.D. in 2000 from the UB. During his Ph.D., he worked in system identification with applications in gas sensor systems. He is a member of the Intelligent Signal Processing group. He is also a member of the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing (ISOCS). His research interests include signal processing for gas sensors, pattern recognition, chemometrics, and chemical instrumentation, as well as hardware and software developments for artificial olfaction.