Electronic Nose:  Current Status and Future Trends

Frank Röck got his diploma in chemistry in 2003 with a work dealing with quality assessment of food packaging materials by using gas sensor arrays at the University of Tübingen. There, he is currently finishing his doctoral studies in which he is focusing on the application of chemical sensor systems to solving industrially relevant problems; his main approach is centred on the reduction of cross-interferences by employing various strategies. His contributions have been published in three papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented at nine international conferences.

Nicolae Barsan received his diploma in physics in 1982 from the Faculty of Physics of the Bucharest University and his Ph.D. in solid-state physics in 1993 from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania. He was a senior researcher at the Institute of Physics and Technnology of Materials, Bucharest, between 1984 and 1995. Since 1995 he has been a researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Tübingen and actually is in charge of the developments in the field of metal oxide based gas sensors. He has published about 150 papers and contributions to international conferences.

Udo Weimar received his diploma in physics in 1989, his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1993, and his Habilitation in 2002 from the University of Tübingen. He is currently the head of the Gas Sensors Group at the University of Tübingen. His research interest focuses on chemical sensors as well as on multicomponent analysis and pattern recognition. He is the author of about 180 scientific papers and short notes. He is responsible for several European projects and for coordinating the Network of Excellence GOSPEL.