Synthetic Biologist |Futurist | SF Author & Speaker
About
Dr. Elsa Sotiriadis 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 programmable DNA nanostructures for her PhD and helped biologize one of the world's biggest tech companies as a management consultant on digital biology 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 and
how genetic software can help us solve our biggest challenges, from climate change to colonizing Mars to design creatures to feed, clothe and shelter humanity.
She holds a PhD from Imperial College London, is an advisory board member of the Lifeboat foundation, an alumna and occasional judge at the iGEM competition and advises early-stage startups and investors. Elsa was named one of 15 women in biotech to follow by Silicon Republic.
In her spare time, she writes science fiction under the pen name EA Solaris. Her debut novelette is an occasional Amazon bestseller and won an honorable mention from Writers of the Future in Hollywood, Los Angeles. She also published critically acclaimed poetry in international (German) literary magazines, including on astrophysics and chaos theory. She loves to push herself with crossfit.
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 programmable DNA nanostructures for her PhD and helped biologize one of the world's biggest tech companies as a management consultant on digital biology 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 and
how genetic software can help us solve our biggest challenges, from climate change to colonizing Mars to design creatures to feed, clothe and shelter humanity.
She holds a PhD from Imperial College London, is an advisory board member of the Lifeboat foundation, an alumna and occasional judge at the iGEM competition and advises early-stage startups and investors. Elsa was named one of 15 women in biotech to follow by Silicon Republic.
In her spare time, she writes science fiction under the pen name EA Solaris. Her debut novelette is an occasional Amazon bestseller and won an honorable mention from Writers of the Future in Hollywood, Los Angeles. She also published critically acclaimed poetry in international (German) literary magazines, including on astrophysics and chaos theory. She loves to push herself with crossfit.
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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