Cristina Alén Cordero received M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Mechanics and Machines) and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1996 and 2010 respectively. She is currently associate professor and research member at the Theory and Signal Department at the Universidad de Alcala (UAH). She has been research visitor at the Laboratorio di Robotica e Meccatronica de la Universita degli Studi di Cassino (Italy) in 2011, and at Kaiserslautern University, Germany, in 2016. Her areas of interest include safety in design of mechanical structures and analysis of deformation in mechanisms.