Elias studied biology at the University of Hamburg and molecular biology and physiology at the University of Greifswald. In 2025 he finished his PhD at the Institute of Virology in Freiburg, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kochs, working on tick-bore Orthomyxoviruses.
He continues working in Freiburg as a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Dr. Peter Reuther, mainly investigating mechanisms of non-cytolytic clearance and host-cell survival after RNA virus infection.
