Bio:

Elias Jelinek studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he completed his master's on analyzing nanomaterials using neural networks. Alongside his studies, he founded the startup Diffusione, which focuses on generating AI-powered product images for the fashion industry and contributes to AI-related projects. Through this experience, Elias gained valuable insights into entrepreneurship, agentic AI and interdisciplinary collaboration.

His expertise spans through engineering and nanomaterial sciences, generative AI, agentic AI and computer vision and more. Elias is now joining Hannes Rothe's team as a research assistant, where he will work on the development of a peer-to-peer living platform and researching on scaling startups and reducing the time-to-MVP through templating.

Elias is passionate about emerging technologies and is eager to tackle new and exciting challenges.