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Amaia Beatriz Ortega Santos

PhD student

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

Ortega-Santos Amaia Beatriz, 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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