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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

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
Amaia Ortega Santos, Jose Gabriel Martinez Gil, Edwin Jager (2024) Synchronous Cation-Driven and Anion-Driven Polypyrrole-Based Yarns toward In-Air Linear Actuators Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 36, p. 9391-9405 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Ortega-Santos Amaia Beatriz, Jose Gabriel Martinez, Edwin Jager (2023) The effect of enzyme immobilization methods in polypyrrole-based soft actuators driven by glucose and O2

Research

Organisation