Eleni Stavrinidou is Senior Associate Professor of Bioengineering and leader of the Electronic Plants group at Linköping University.
Eleni Stavrinidou is Senior Associate Professor of Bioengineering and leader of the Electronic Plants group at Linköping University. She received a PhD in Microelectronics from EMSE (France) in 2014. She then did her postdoctoral training at Linköping University (Sweden) during which she was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship. In 2017 Stavrinidou became Assistant Professor at Linköping University and established the Electronic Plants group. In 2020 she became Associate Professor and Docent in Applied Physics. She received several grants including the Future Research Leaders grant of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, ERC-Staring Grant and Swedish Research Council Consolidator Grant. Stavrinidou is recipient of the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science prize in Sweden (2019), the Tage Erlander Prize for Natural Sciences and Technology from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2023) and the Young Scientist Award in Natural Sciences from the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (2025). Since 2023 Stavrinidou is serving as Associate Editor of Science Advances. Her research interests focus on plant bioelectronics for real time monitoring and dynamic control of plant physiology and plant-based biohybrid living materials and devices.
Achilleas Savva
Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology
Achilleas Savva was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1985. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, in 2010.
Achilleas Savva was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1985. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, in 2010. He then obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Cyprus University of Technology in 2014. His PhD research was focused on organic optoelectronics for renewable energy. In 2017 he joined the group of Professor Sahika Inal in KAUST, Saudi Arabia, as a postdoc, and expanded his research on organic bioelectronics. In 2019, he joined the group of Professor Róisín Owens at the University of Cambridge where he secured the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. He developed several novel organic bioelectronic devices such as biosensors, light sensitive devices for photo-stimulation of neurons, 3D in vitro human stem cell models, among others. As of September 2023, he will start a new position as Assistant Professor in the Bioelectronics group at Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands.
Christina Tringides
Assistant Professor, Rice University
Christina M Tringides is a tenure-track assistant professor in Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and a core member of the Neuroengineering Initiative (NEI) at Rice, and joined July 2024.
Christina M Tringides is a tenure-track assistant professor in Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and a core member of the Neuroengineering Initiative (NEI) at Rice, and joined July 2024. She earned her B.S. degrees in physics and in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015, and spent one year as a Fulbright Scholar and Swiss Government Excellence Scholar at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne before starting her PhD in 2016. Her PhD work was done in the laboratory of Professor David Mooney (Harvard, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), and her degree came from Harvard Biophysics and the Medical Engineering Medical Physics program between Harvard and MIT in May 2022. Afterwards, Christina moved to ETH Zürich, where she was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow, with Professor Janos Vörös (D-ITET, Institute of Biomedical Engineering). Her research focuses on developing new materials and neurotechnologies to interface with the nervous system, from the cell to organ levels, and for both in vivo and in vitro applications.
