Ricardo Alan Cortez-Vega received a Ph.D. from Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, in 2022. Since 2020, he has been appointed as Professor-Researcher at Instituto Politécnico Nacional. He has a research internship at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (2017). He is a member of the National System for Researchers (SNII-Sehciti-México). He has authored several works on soft robotics, energy management, and optimization algorithms for dynamic systems. In recent years, he has been a reviewer in about eight high-impact-factor JCR journals. His research interests include classical robotics, soft robotics, smart actuators, mathematical models of non-linear systems, management of Li-ion batteries, and metaheuristic algorithms.