Elise de Reus

Elise de Reus is a co-founder and Head of Partnerships at Cradle, a company leveraging generative AI for protein design. With a strong background in fungal synthetic biology, holding a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark, and an MSc in Life Science & Technology, she previously contributed to microbial development and strain engineering at companies like Zymergen and Perfect Day. Her expertise lies in industrial biotechnology, applying generative artificial intelligence to accelerate and enhance protein discovery and engineering.