Dr. Bayron Alexander Ruiz Blandon is a Forest Researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Mexico. Since 2019, he has served as a peer reviewer for the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Minciencias), Colombia. He obtained an Ingeniero Agroforestal degree from the Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó “Diego Luis Córdoba”, Colombia. He also holds a Maestro en Ciencias de Productos Forestales degree and a Doctor en Ciencias en Biosistemática, Ecología y Manejo de Recursos Naturales y Agrícolas from the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. His research focuses on tropical forestry, with an emphasis on silviculture, forest plantations, biomass and carbon dynamics, ecosystem services, and sustainable management. His work contributes to the understanding of forest productivity, carbon sequestration, and ecological resilience of tropical ecosystems under changing environmental conditions.