Where: Building 20, Auditorium
Description
A keynote lecture by Elsa Sotiriadis, The Biofuturist, science fiction author and Dr. in synthetic biology.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Are we already living in a science fiction-inspired future? The future is already here: Explore in this lecture how science fiction has shaped technology, how biology became an information technology and how it transforms our future, from our daily lives to personalized medicine.
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Elsa Sotiriadis
Elsa Sotiriadis is a scientist, former venture capital investor, futurist and science fiction writer (Elsa Solaris). She is interested in fixing the world by hacking the code of life. As a director at a VC firm, she helped invest in, build, and launch 25 pioneering biotech startups to transform industries across food, technology, health, and medicine. During her Ph.D. in Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, she worked on making DNA nanorobots to stop the growth of cancer cells. Today, as a ‘Bio-Futurist’ she helped an iconic tech company harness digital biology to innovate their flagship product. She has been featured in the BBC’s science fiction show ‘Forest 404’ and took part in a workshop on self-sustaining human life in space at NASA’s Ames Research Centre.
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