Elisa Roth is a doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. Her research focusses on the impact of operator assistance systems in production. Elisa has a degree in industrial engineering from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
She has been active with Engineers without Borders Germany coordinating a water infrastructure and microfinance project in Kenya.
She has been involved in technology consulting, technical product innovation and business development functions in corporations, start-ups, and SMEs, including McKinsey&Company, STABILO, Share4good, and MWH Global. Moreover, she is a scholar of the Foundation of German Business (sdw), an honorary scholar of the Cambridge Trust, and recently received the "Next Generation Women Leaders Award" by McKinsey&Company.”