Andrés Alejandro Zúñiga Rodríguez obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2025. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in Power Systems, from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador, in 2015. From September 2015 to July 2022, he served as a faculty member in the Master’s Program in Reliability and Maintenance Engineering (MICRO) at the Fundación Universitaria Canaria de Las Palmas. In this role, he taught courses in Physical Asset Management and Risk Analysis – HAZOP, and supervised 19 master’s theses. Since 2017, he has been conducting research at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC), part of the Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics (LAETA), funded by a competitive doctoral fellowship awarded by the Ecuadorian Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT) for the period 2017–2021. From 2018 to 2020, he served as an Invited Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Scientific Area of Energy, at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. During this period, he lectured in courses such as Portfólio MEEC (PMeec), Renewable Sources and Distributed Power Generation (ERPD), and Electrical Drives and Electric Vehicles (AVE). Since 2021, he has held the position of Doctorate-Level Senior Technitian (Técnico Superior Doutorado) in the Scientific Area of Energy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal, where he collaborates in research activities, academic support, and specialized project participation. He currently also serves as an Invited Adjunct Professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), where he teaches subjects in the field of Instrumentation. His research interests lie primarily in three areas: (1) Power Systems Operation and Planning, (2) Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS), and (3) Operational Planning of Hydroelectric Power Systems. His doctoral research focuses on availability modeling and simulation for modern electrical substations, with particular emphasis on the impact of cyber-power interdependencies and vulnerabilities.