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R. Langarica is an instrumental astrophysicist specializing in the design and construction of robotic telescopes and wide-field imagers for time-domain astronomy. Their work is central to the development of COLIBRI, a 1.3-meter Franco-Mexican robotic telescope at San Pedro Mártir, and its primary instrument, DDRAGO. Langarica’s contributions span the full engineering lifecycle—from structural design and control systems to optical integration—enabling rapid, autonomous follow-up of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and gravitational wave counterparts detected by the SVOM satellite. They also contributed to COATLI, a 50-cm robotic imager achieving 0.3 arcsecond image quality, and to CAGIRE, a wide-field NIR imager for COLIBRI. While individual citation counts are modest (1–6), these papers represent foundational technical work for major international facilities. Langarica’s expertise in robotic observatory systems and high-precision instrumentation is critical to the growing field of multi-messenger astrophysics, where rapid, reliable ground-based response is essential. Their work enables the next generation of transient surveys, bridging space-based alerts with ground-based optical and infrared characterization.