Alvaro David Monterroza-Rios holds a PhD in Philosophy and is trained as both a chemical engineer and a philosopher. He is a Full Professor at the Instituto Tecnologico Metropolitano (ITM) and an Associate Researcher affiliated with the Science, Technology and Society + Innovation (CTS+i) research group. His research focuses on the philosophy of technology and design, enactivism, the ontology of artifacts, and naturalistic epistemologies, developing integrative accounts of material culture, design practices, and the socio-material constitution of technical artifacts.