Claudio Pastrone (male) received the M. Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2002. He won an annual research grant from CNIT to study mobility and security issues in wireless networks in 2003. In 2004, he joined the Electronics Department, Politecnico di Torino, where he pur-sued his previous activity. In February 2005, he joined the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Turin, Italy where he is currently heading the Pervasive Technologies (PerT) research area composed of 3 research units and overall involving about 20 people including senior and post-Doc researchers as well as MSc students. His research interests include short-range wireless communications technologies, with a focus on cognitive wireless sensor networks (WSNs), network management, and e-security protocols as well as solutions for intrusion detection systems. He has been active in a number of European projects including Unify-IoT, MAESTRI, SatisFactory (H2020), GreenCom, ALMANAC, DIMMER, SEEMPubS (FP7 STREP), BEMO-COFRA and IMPRESS (FP7 STREPs for EU-Brazil collaboration), ebbits and BUTLER (FP7 IP), NEWCOM++ (FP7 Network of Excellence), with both technical and management roles (within the consortia and within ISMB). He has also worked in several projects co-funded by the Piedmont Region and in industrial collaborations with large companies and small-medium enterprises from Piedmont Region. Claudio Pastrone has been exposed to EU level coordination activities such as the ones in the Internet of Things European Research Cluster (IERC) within the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI). He currently represents ISMB in specific Working Groups of the AIOTI. He has also been a member of the Technical Program Committee of International IEEE Conferences. TWITTER: @claudiopastrone LINKEDI: https://it.linkedin.com/in/claudiopastrone