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Amaia Beatriz Ortega Santos

In January 2021, I started my PhD at Sensor and Actuator Systems. My tasks will be the optimization of the electrochemical cell parameters, and the electronics design and control of the microactuator.

Presentation

I will study biofuel cell driven microactuators.

I received my bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, specialized in Automatics and Electronics, at Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 2018. I wrote my BSc thesis about biocompatible alginate-based hydrogel 3D bioprinting at Centro Laser UPM and graduated with honours.

In 2020, I came for my Erasmus exchange studies to LiU, where I finalized my Industrial Engineering master's degree and wrote my MSc thesis at IFM. I studied the performance of polypyrrol-based artificial muscles in different electrolytes under the supervision of Jose Martinez and Edwin Jager.
In January 2021, I started my PhD at Sensor and Actuator Systems. I will study biofuel cell driven microactuators. My tasks will be the optimization of the electrochemical cell parameters, and the electronics design and control of the microactuator.

Publications

2026

Amaia Beatriz Ortega-Santos, Satoru Hayano, Emilio Satoshi Hara, Jose Gabriel Martinez, Hiroshi Kamioka, Edwin W. H. Jager (2026) PPy‐Coated Wire Actuators for the Micromechanostimulation of Cells: Fabrication and Characterization Small Science, Vol. 6, Article e202500639 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ortega Santos Amaia Beatriz (2026) Conducting Polymers for Biological Studies and Medical Applications: Fabrication, Functionalisation, and Characterisation of Polypyrrole-Based Soft Actuators and Surfaces

2025

Shayan Mehraeen, Jose Gabriel Martinez, Ortega-Santos Amaia Beatriz, Plesse Cedric, Nils-Krister Persson, Edwin Jager (2025) A systematic approach for overcoming actuation challenges in double coiled yarn actuators

2024

Ortega-Santos Amaia Beatriz, Jose Gabriel Martinez, Edwin Jager (2024) Polypyrrole-coated wire actuators: A tool for the mechanostimulation of cells
Ortega-Santos Amaia Beatriz, Elisabet Henell, Jose Gabriel Martinez, Emilio S Hara, Edwin Jager (2024) Biomimetic tunable electroactive surfaces for bone-on-chip

Research

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