Manuel Arias-Montiel was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1979. He received the title of Mechanical Engineer for the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City in 2002 and the grades of Master and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering for the Center of Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He is author and co-author of more than 30 articles published in indexed journals, 23 book chapters and he has particpated as a speaker at various congresses and conferences in Korea, USA, Belgium, Italy and Mexico. Nowadays, he is a member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering journal. He is a member of the National System of Researchers of the Mexican Council of Science and Technology since 2015. Currently, he is a titular researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Mechatronics of Technological University of the Mixteca in Oaxaca, Mexico. His interest research are mechatronics, rehabilitation robotics, and control of mechanical vibration.