Prof. Daniel Lavayen obtained his PhD in Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) and also holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technische Universitaet Ilmenau (Germany) and a B.S. in Mechanical Eng. from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. His main research areas involve lightweight design, especially to improve rollover crashworthiness in passenger vehicles, as well as mechanism and machine theory, applied to origami-inspired mechanisms. He currently works as a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.