Elias completed his bachelor´s degree in biochemistry in 2022 at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany where he worked on bacterial membrane proteins under the supervision of Prof. Pos. Afterwards, he continued with the masters program of Biochemistry in Cologne. During an internship at the Dikic group, he established endogenous proximity proteomics of ER-proteins. For his master´s thesis, he applies proteomics to investigate targeted protein degradation via ER-phagy.