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Salvador Cuevas is a leading astronomical instrumentation specialist whose work centers on designing and building robotic telescopes and imagers for time-domain astrophysics. His primary research focus is the development of wide-field, high-resolution optical and near-infrared instruments to study transient phenomena, particularly gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their optical counterparts. Cuevas has been instrumental in the Franco-Mexican COLIBRI project, a 1.3-meter robotic telescope at San Pedro Mártir Observatory, and its dedicated instruments—the DDRAGO wide-field imager and the CAGIRE near-infrared camera. His contributions include the systems and optical design of COATLI, an all-sky robotic imager achieving 0.3 arcsecond image quality. Cuevas’s work directly supports the SVOM space mission, enabling rapid ground-based follow-up of cosmic explosions detected by satellite. With over 20 citations across his most influential papers, his engineering innovations in robotic observatory control systems and diffraction-limited imaging are critical to advancing our understanding of the transient sky, bridging the gap between space-based detections and detailed ground-based characterization.