Marco Consales is an Associate Professor at the Engineering Department of the University of Sannio in Benevento. He received a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering (110/110 cum laude) in 2004 from the University of Naples “Federico II” and a Ph.D. Degree in “Information Engineering” in 2007 from the University of Sannio. Since 2004, he has been carrying out intensive research activity in the area of optoelectronics and photonics for chemical and biological sensing applications, with a particular interest in the field of Lab-on-fiber devices, as demonstrated by 2 national patents, 10 invited book chapters, more than 35 publications on scientific journals, and more than 60 publications on conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Nanomaterials and Naotechnology journal ("Nanophotonics topic") and a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Journal of Sensors, Advances in Optics and Journal of Nanotechnology in Diagnosis and Treatment.