Rubén Roberto Peralta-Rivera is an Associate Professor of linguistics at the Facultad de Idiomas Mexicali, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. He teaches courses in the Spanish language, Japanese language, and general linguistics with particular interests in theoretical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax and applied linguistics. His research areas include: phonology, language contact phenomena, sociolinguistics and comparative forensic linguistics. His methodological expertise includes the Optimality Theory framework, R software and Praat. He holds a Ph.D. in Language Sciences from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (2025), an M.Phil in Theoretical Linguistics from the UiT-Arctic University of Norway (2015) and a B.A. in Language Teaching from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (2010).