Aleksandra Sander was born on March 24, 1969 in Zagreb. She finished primary and secondary school in Zagreb. She received the MEng and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering in 1999 and 2003, respectively, from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology (FCET), University of Zagreb, Croatia. She has been working at the Department of Mechanical and Thermal Process Engineering at FCET since 1994 and was elected as a Full Professor in 2011.

She has published around 50 papers (journal articles and conference papers) and participated in 42 international and national conferences. She cooperated in the execution of several national science projects supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology, the Croatian Science Foundation and European Regional Development Fund, Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020. She was the leader of a research project supported by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was a member of the Committee for Self-Analysis of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, a member of the Expert Working Group of the Faculty on the project “TARGET - Uspostava visokoobrazovnih sTandarda kvAlifikacija i zanimanja u sektoru Rudarstva, Geologije i kEmijske Tehnologije”, a member of the working group on the EU project: “Prirodoslovna lepeza za mlade znanstvenike – suvremena nastava za izazove tržišta” (2015-2016) and she participated in the project "UP.04.2.1.10 Formula za znanost, Pozor! – Projekti i obrazovanje za održivi razvoj".

She was the president of the scientific organizing committee for two national conferences and a member of the scientific organizing committee for three national and two international conferences. She is a member of the Croatian society of chemical engineers.

She was involved in the implementation of professional studies and analyses in the fields of thermal process engineering and environmental protection.

She is the author of several entries in the Technical Lexicon and an article in the Croatian Technical Encyclopedia, The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography.

Her research interest includes thermal separation processes like drying, crystallization and liquid-liquid extraction.

She lectures on several undergraduate courses related to thermal process engineering, unit operations, and one course in postgraduate studies.