Synthetic Biologist |Futurist | SF Author & Speaker
About
Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis, aka The Biofuturist, is a synthetic biologist turned biotech VC turned futurist, SF author and...cyborg.
She lives between London, Amsterdam and cyberspace.
Elsa helped invest in, build and launch 25 ground-breaking biotech startups as a VC, founded a 'cancer moonshot' to develop computer-programmable DNA nanostructures for her PhD and helped biologize one of the world's biggest tech companies as The Biofuturist. Technology goes under her skin - she became a 'cyborg' live on stage to tweet just by hand swipe via cybernetics.
She is an experienced and popular international keynote speaker and her experience includes Pioneers Festival, SLUSH, Hello Tomorrow, Oredev, SynBioBeta, Stanford University, Oxford University and many more.
She speaks on topics like:
She holds a PhD from Imperial College London and the University of Hong Kong, is an advisory board member of the Lifeboat foundation, an alumna and occasional judge at the iGEM competition on 'biologically engineered machines' and advises early-stage startups and investors. Elsa was named one of 15 women in biotech to follow by Silicon Republic.
She's a geek obsessed with sci-fi, so in her spare time, she attempts to write science fiction under her pen name (EA Solaris) and her debut novelette won an honorable mention from Writers of the Future in Los Angeles. She also published critically acclaimed poetry in international (German) literary magazines, including on astrophysics and chaos theory and gets to climb stages to ramble on about space colonization and digital biology sometimes. She loves to push herself with crossfit or do none of these things at all.
She lives between London, Amsterdam and cyberspace.
Elsa helped invest in, build and launch 25 ground-breaking biotech startups as a VC, founded a 'cancer moonshot' to develop computer-programmable DNA nanostructures for her PhD and helped biologize one of the world's biggest tech companies as The Biofuturist. Technology goes under her skin - she became a 'cyborg' live on stage to tweet just by hand swipe via cybernetics.
She is an experienced and popular international keynote speaker and her experience includes Pioneers Festival, SLUSH, Hello Tomorrow, Oredev, SynBioBeta, Stanford University, Oxford University and many more.
She speaks on topics like:
- Biohacking as the next great software revolution
- The future of humanity from CRISPR to cyborgs to de-excinction
- How genetic design language can help us solve our biggest challenges, from climate change to space exploration
- How IT companies can harness digital biology's moonshots to future-proof their business
She holds a PhD from Imperial College London and the University of Hong Kong, is an advisory board member of the Lifeboat foundation, an alumna and occasional judge at the iGEM competition on 'biologically engineered machines' and advises early-stage startups and investors. Elsa was named one of 15 women in biotech to follow by Silicon Republic.
She's a geek obsessed with sci-fi, so in her spare time, she attempts to write science fiction under her pen name (EA Solaris) and her debut novelette won an honorable mention from Writers of the Future in Los Angeles. She also published critically acclaimed poetry in international (German) literary magazines, including on astrophysics and chaos theory and gets to climb stages to ramble on about space colonization and digital biology sometimes. She loves to push herself with crossfit or do none of these things at all.
Speaking
Elsa has been incredibly receptive to our suggestions and managed to weave a red thread throughout her inspirational opening keynote, presenting a motley of exciting biological technologies and visions of future to our astounded attendees.
Tadeáš Peták
Communication, Program Committee Grandmaster @ Öredev AB
Elsa is a superb speaker with an amazing ability to distil the most complex scientific ideas into easy to follow talks. Elsa kindly agreed to talk at the Imperial College London Fringe Festival where she spoke about biohacking.
The audience were gripped from start to finish and Elsa could have stayed all night to answer questions and she still wouldn’t have finished!
I have no problem at all recommending Elsa. She is a highly gifted speaker and would be an asset to any event.
James Sheppard,
Manager at Imperial Enterprise Labs
The Oxford University Scientific Society was delighted to host Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis as our speaker. Dr. Sotiriadis joined our elite list of speakers (which includes numerous Nobel Prize winners) as she enthralled her audience by combining her technical rigour with her sci-fi inspired visions of the future of humanity.
Dr. Sotiriadis’s engaging and eloquent style of presentation was well tailored to our general audience of academics, students and members of the public. We are delighted to count her as one of our wonderful speakers.
Avi Roy,
Director
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