Dr. Valentin Ciupe is currently serving as Associate Professor in the Mechatronics Department at Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania. His current research interests revolve around pneumatic and electo-pneumatic actuators, industrial control, industrial and service robotics. He is also invloved in developing educational simulation software modules used for digital twin representation of industrial mechatronics, and occasionally he designs and builds book scanners. Dr. Ciupe is also vice-president of the Romanian Robotics Society - Timisoara branch, and he serves as a reviewer and editor for international journals from MDPI and Springer.