Elise Talgorn

Elise Talgorn is a multidisciplinary researcher and artist who explores how stories can spark compassionate connections between people, nature, and technology. She holds a PhD in renewable energy physics and has worked in sustainable innovation and strategy at Philips, broadening her expertise to planet-centered design, systems thinking, and narrative sciences.

Currently she is Associate Professor in Impact Storytelling at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where she researches how participatory story-based experiences can drive social and environmental transformation. As an artist she creates paintings and comics that give voice to the more-than-human and challenge dominant narrative frameworks with humor and emotion.