-Saverio De Vito has born in Torre del Greco, (Naples - Italy) in June 1973. He received a Laurea Degree (cum laude) in Computer Engineering in march 1998 from University of Naples "Federico II", with a thesis on computer assisted diagnosis in mammography under the supervision of M. Vento and F. Tortorella. Afterwhile, He spent five years in a private ITC firm as a software designer and project manager. There, He specialized in the technical management of European Space Agency funded projects for appplications of satellite telecommunications to Telemedicine, Distance learning, Marine communications etc. He was inventor of a satellite file multicast transfer protocol adopted by multiple ESA projects. He was also designer of DSS and Quota management system of the COSMOSkymed satellite constellation. In june 2004 he joined ENEA (Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and environment) as a researcher. His research interests are in the fields of artificial olfaction, wireless sensor networks architectures and protocols, and sensor fusion. His studies have lead to the deployment of several patents and have been applied in mutiple fields ranging from air quality monitoring, to human safety, geochemical monitoring, aerospace industry, packaging industry and energy efficiency. He also focus his interests in object oriented software design and biomedical image processing. He is author of more than 15 peer reviewed pubblications.