Pietro Toscano is a senior technologist at the CREA - Research Centre for Engineering and Agri-Food Processing of Treviglio (Bergamo), Italy. He graduated in Agricultural Science at the University of Bari, Italy, in 1987. He was a full-time researcher from 1990 to 2015 at Research Centre of Olive-growing in Rende (Cosenza), Italy, with expertise in the mechanisation of cultural techniques, soil and orchard management, and the composting of olive mill by-products. Since 2015, as a researcher and then a senior technologist at CREA-IT of Treviglio (Bg), he has worked in agromechanics innovations.