(ORCID:0000-0001-7867-0010)

David Blanco earned a BSc in Industrial Engineering (1999) and a PhD (2007). Since 2022, he has been working as a Senior Lecturer in the area of Manufacturing Processes Engineering at the University of Oviedo. Since 2012, he has also served as the Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Mechatronic Engineering at the same institution. As a researcher, he has contributed to five projects under the National R&D Plan and served as Principal Investigator for 25 industry projects, generating over €750,000 in funding in the past decade. He has co-authored more than 40 publications, including 11 indexed scientific articles—five of which were published in first-tier JCR journals—and six chapters in technical books. He has presented 21 papers at prestigious conferences, such as the World Congress on Engineering (WCE) and ETFA-IEEE, receiving the Best Paper Award at the WCE twice. Additionally, he has supervised two PhD thesis and more than 20 BSc and MSc theses, while collaborating on four teaching innovation projects.