Rossella Manganiello is a researcher (Technologist) at the Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing of the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-IT) in Monterotondo (Rome), Italy. She holds a Ph.D. with honors in "Engineering for Energy and Environment curriculum Biosystems and environment" at the University of Tuscia and a master’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her research combines optoelectronic and olfactometric sensing—RGB and Vis-NIR spectral cameras and a digital electronic nose—with multivariate statistics and artificial intelligence for the proximal, non-destructive assessment of the quality and phytosanitary status of agri-food and forestry products. Her published work covers machine vision and neural networks for the real-time qualitative assessment of olives and fruit, electronic-nose detection of bacterial, viral and fungal plant pathogens, low-cost instrumented vehicles for in-field crop phenotyping, and the sensorized monitoring and chemical characterization of agri-food processes.