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Gabriela Gallegos Garrido is a robotics researcher specializing in autonomous inspection systems, climbing robots, and mobile robot navigation for safety-critical industrial applications. Her most significant contributions center on the development of wall-climbing robots capable of inspecting infrastructure that is difficult or dangerous for human workers to access, including reinforced concrete structures, wind turbine blades, and ship hulls. Her flagship project, SIRCAUR (Safe Inspection of Reinforced Concrete Structures by Autonomous Robot), has attracted the most attention in her field, garnering 15 citations for its innovative use of permanent magnets to adhere to embedded steel reinforcement bars, enabling autonomous climbing and structural assessment. This work elegantly addresses a longstanding engineering challenge: balancing payload weight against adhesion and motor torque requirements in climbing robot design. Her parallel research into radiographic inspection of wind blades and ultrasonic weld-line inspection of ship hulls further demonstrates her commitment to applying autonomous robotics across diverse high-stakes industries. Earlier in her career, she contributed to indoor simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) through composite vision and laser sensing. With a growing citation record across multiple domains, Gallegos Garrido represents an emerging voice in field robotics and non-destructive evaluation automation.