As co-founder of Cradle, Elise is motivated by the belief that industrial biotechnology holds enormous potential to produce essential products at lower environmental impact. Elise previously worked at Zymergen to develop high-throughput workflows for rapidly generating improved microbial strains, and contributed to strain engineering for microbial production of dairy protein at Perfect Day Foods. She holds an MSc in Life Science & Technology from TU Delft and grew quite fond of fungi during a PhD in fungal synthetic biology at the Technical University of Denmark.