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20 October 2025

The Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts has awarded Dr. Eleni Stavrinidou the Young Scientist Award, recognizing her work that combines interdisciplinarity, innovation and social responsibility.

Electronic soil with growing plant. Photographer: Thor Balkhed
Electronic soil is one of the developments from the E-plants group at LiU, led by Eleni Stavrinidou.

Academy’s motivation: Stavrinidou’s groundbreaking research connects physics, materials science, biology and engineering. She was the first to demonstrate the integration of functional electronic circuits in living plants — an idea that has led to the concept of “electronic plants”. This opens up possibilities for environmental sensors, biohybrid systems and green electronics.

This innovation opens new possibilities in environmental sensing, biohybrid systems, and sustainable “green” electronics.

Eleni is a senior associate professor at Linköping University and leads the Electronic Plants research group at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics. She received her PhD in microelectronics from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Étienne in France after studying physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The prize is given to an outstanding young researcher (up to 40 years old) from Cyprus with recognized scientific contributions.

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