Steve Screupenheim (Empath stories)

Steve Screupenheim is a human character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. He is the descendant of Gargamel's apprentice Scruple, who works for Garfield Melthorne as the chief scientist of his company's Research and Development division. Although Steve is only in his teens, he is very intelligent and shows incredible aptitude in various sciences, being able to graduate from college when he was only twelve. Steve was put in charge of doing research on the time-traveling Smurfs when Melthorne's expedition team in Belgium found them in what was left of the Smurf Forest.