Benachir Bouchikhi received his Ph.D degree at Aix-Marseille University in 1982, France, and his Dr. Sc. Degree in 1988 at the University of Nancy I, France, specialising in measuring instruments. He is working as Professor at Moulay Ismaïl University, as a Research Scientist at the Faculty of Sciences of Meknes, Morocco. He is the Director of the Laboratory of Electronics, Automatic and Biotechnology. His research activities cover topics of wide range: chemical sensors (gas, sensors,), odor sampling (headspace analysis, dynamic sampling), sensor systems (electronic noses, electronic tongues), data analysis (signal processing, pattern recognition, chemometrics), industrial applications (quality control, food safety, medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring). He has published over 108 scientific papers. During the last 15 years, he has managed about 20 national and international bilateral projects with many European universities, in the area of food safety and control of the climate parameters and drip fertigation under greenhouse. He has supervised 7 PhD theses, 4 in preparation, 3 Dr Sc-Degree, and 4 Habilitations. He is member of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014 project TROPSENSE: "Development of a non-invasive breath test for early diagnosis of tropical diseases" (No: 645758).