Elise Elsacker

Elise Elsacker is a postdoctoral researcher in Living Construction at Newcastle University working on Living Mycelium Materials. She is pioneering the development of materials in which fungal organisms maintain viability during their lifespan. Her current focus is to study the fungus's regeneration behaviour leading to the material's self-healing upon damage.

Her PhD in Engineering at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) intertwined with various fields such as biology, mycology, materials sciences and design. A particular achievement of her dissertation, entitled Mycelium Matters, is that it is one of the first to characterize all principal factors affecting the biological and material properties of mycelium composites. She also broadened the potential of biological architectural applications with novel robotic tools such as 3D-printing and robotic wire-cutting.

Elise co-founded the company Glimps.bio, a leading innovation agency in Belgium in bio, creativity and collaboration, which focusses on creating value from waste by finding circular and bio-design solutions for biotech and waste companies.

www.eliseelsacker.com