Elise Cahard is the Coordinator of the NAIPO program, funded by Innosuisse since 2026. She previously worked as Managing Director at the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation between 2020 and 2026, and as Scientific Project Officer at the French National Research Agency (ANR), equivalent to the SNSF, between 2014 and 2018. Elise holds a Chemical Engineering degree from ESCPE (France), a MPhil from the University of Strathclyde (UK) and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Cambridge (UK), and previously hold R&D positions at GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-​Aventis.