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Alexandra Sandéhn

PhD student

I am working on developing bioelectronic growth platforms for enhancing plant growth via electrical stimulation at The Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

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Alexandra Sandéhn did her BSc degree in Biomedical Engineering at Linköping university during 2016-2019. In 2019, she continued her MSc degree in Applied Physics at Linköping university, with a degree specialization in Biomedical Engineering Materials. Her MSc thesis focused on the development of Capillary Organic Electronic Ion Pump (c-OEIP) for delivery of biologically relevant ions to intact tropical plants and elucidating their effect. Her thesis was performed in the Electronic Plants group at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, under supervision of Dr. Iwona Bernacka-Wojcik and Associate Professor Eleni Stavrinidou.

In September 2021, she returned to the Electronic Plants group as a research assistant and continued her work on c-OEIPs and tropical plants.

In January 2023, she started her PhD in the same group, and as a part of the graduate school Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC). Currently, she is working on developing bioelectronic growth platforms for enhancing plant growth via electrical stimulation.

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2026

Fabio Cicoira, Magnus Berggren, Erica Colaprico, Reverant Crispin, Isak Engquist, Drew Evans, Simone Fabiano, Jiaxin Fan, Zijing Guo, Guoying Gu, Amali G. Guruge, Ryohei Ikeda, Magnus Jonsson, Laure V Kayser, Sadaf Khoomortezaei, Chi-hyeong Kim, Jinsil Kim, Jeonghun Kwak, Renee Kroon, Junghyun Lee, Jinhao Li, Baoyang Lu, George G. Malliaras, David C. Martin, Masakazu Mukaida, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Stephen J. K. O'Neill, Hiroshi Okamoto, Tetsu Sato, Oren A. Scherman, Alexandra Sandéhn, Daniel Simon, Jeong Han Song, Eleni Stavrinidou, Jun Takeya, Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, Alessandro Troisi, Klas Tybrandt, Qingshuo Wei, Meijing Wang, Shun Watanabe, Yuhang Wu, Bicheng Zhu, Igor Zozoulenko (2026) The 2025 PEDOT roadmap FLEXIBLE AND PRINTED ELECTRONICS, Vol. 11, Article 032501 (Article, review/survey) https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-8585/ae81bf
Arianna Melis, Andrea Spanu, Fabrizio Antonio Viola, Abdul Manan Manan Dar, Alexandra Sandéhn, Cyril Routier, Annalisa Bonfiglio, Eleni Stavrinidou (2026) Conformable Ferrimagnetic Tattoo Electrodes for Plant Electrophysiology Advanced Materials Technologies (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admt.71156
Alexandra Sandéhn, Sri Surya Venkatadevi Prasanna Vijayarouthu, Alex Costa, Eleni Stavrinidou (2026) Bioelectronics for basic plant science and precision agriculture NATURE REVIEWS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 3, p. 145-156 (Article, review/survey) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44287-025-00258-3

2024

Daniel Cowan-Turner, Bethan A. Morris, Alexandra Sandéhn, Iwona Bernacka Wojcik, Eleni Stavrinidou, Robyn F. Powell, Ilia J. Leitch, Jessica Taylor, Max Walker, Osita Nwokeocha, Maxim V. Kapralov, Anne M. Borland (2024) Sequencing complex plants on a budget: The development of Kalanchoë blossfeldiana as a C3, CAM comparative tool Plants, People, Planet, Vol. 6, p. 1314-1328 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10517
Vasileios Oikonomou, Miriam Huerta, Alexandra Sandéhn, Till Dreier, Yohann Daguerre, Hyungwoo Lim, Magnus Berggren, Eleni Pavlopoulou, Torgny Näsholm, Martin Bech, Eleni Stavrinidou (2024) eSoil: A low- power bioelectronic growth scaffold that enhances crop seedling growth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 121, Article e2304135120 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304135120