Elise is co-founder and heads partnerships at Cradle, the platform used by scientists to design improved proteins with generative ML, guided by their own data. Prior to founding Cradle and laying the groundwork for Cradle's in-house wet lab, Elise worked on high throughput genome engineering at Zymergen and Perfect Day. Elise studied Life Science & Technology at TU Delft and holds a PhD in synthetic biology from the Danish Technical University.