Nili is the CSO of Cultivarium.

Previously, she was a core member and the Director of Molecular Diagnostics at Pandemic Response Lab, a high-throughput diagnostic and genome biosurveillance COVID-19 facility established for New York City.

Trained in Microbiology (MS), Chemistry (PhD) and Genetics (Postdoctoral Fellow), Nili has led several technology development projects in the field of synthetic biology. As a fellow at Harvard, she spearheaded construction of synthetic chromosomes, and established genome-scale engineering methods for non-model microbes. As a graduate student, she received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to use baker’s yeast as an environmental sensor. Her research interests span protein engineering, nanomaterials, metabolic engineering and environmental microbiology.

Nili is an avid science communicator passionate about making science more open and accessible.