Prof. Dr. Emanuele Cerruto, born on October 29 1964, in Modica (in the province of Ragusa, Italy), became a researcher in 1994, received a PhD in 1995, and since November 1 2005 has been a full-time Associate Professor in the Di3A (Department of Agriculture, Food, and Environment), Section of Mechanics and Mechanization of the University of Catania (Italy). His research activities are in the fields of machinery for pesticide applications (foliar deposition, ground losses, worker exposure, and spray quality), worker safety (noise and vibration exposure), post-harvest technology (packing lines and mechanical fruit damage), and renewable energies (anaerobic digestion plants and digestate spreading), which go back more than 25 years and are attested by more than 200 scientific papers and by his being a member of, or responsible for, several research units.