Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl is the co-founder and co-CEO of Natural Cycles, the women’s health company behind the world’s first FDA Cleared birth control app. A former particle physicist and member of the CERN team that discovered the Higgs boson—a breakthrough that ultimately led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics —Elina brought her scientific expertise to women’s health by developing the proprietary algorithm behind the NC° Birth Control app. Registered as a Class II medical device in the U.S., the app uses biometric data to determine a woman’s daily fertility status and has been certified by regulatory bodies across the U.S., Europe, Canada, and beyond.