Martina Björkander, Th.D., Docent of Practical Theology, especially Pentecostal studies, is a Senior Lecturer of Theology at Akademi för Ledarskap och Teologi, Sweden, an affiliated researcher at the Polin Institute, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Professor Extraordinarius at the College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa.

She earned a doctoral degree in Global Christianity with Inter-religious Relations at Lund University, Sweden in 2021. Her thesis was later transformed into a research monograph published by Brill: Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology: A Rhythm that Connects our Hearts with God (2024). She has more than thirty publications, most of them with high-esteemed international publishers such as Routledge, Brill and Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests span various aspects of Pentecostal theology, spirituality, worship and mission, especially as they play out in East Africa and the Nordics, as well as ritual studies, liturgics, ethnography, lived theology, and research methodology. Her current research delves into the lived faith of Pentecostals in connection to experiences of the Rwandan genocide.