Our Team

Julia brings in more than ten years of experience in the management and administration of international research collaborations. Her portfolio has included small and large-scale collaborative projects, clinical trials and networks funded by EU-FP7, Horizon2020, EDCTP, EIT Health as well as national and regional funding schemes. She is an expert in day-to-day project management and monitoring, financial issues and project reporting and has provided numerous training courses on project and financial management, both at national and international level, either as part of capacity building schemes in EU and EDCTP projects or directly for partner organizations, research institutes and universities. Julia supports her projects with strong communication skills and provides expert advice on project implementation, preparation of audits and contractual issues.

At LINQ, Julia oversees all areas of operations and keeps the project management team performing at its peak. She translates best practice into standard processes and adapts them to new programmes whenever a new funder is added to the LINQ portfolio. In addition to safeguarding efficiency and compliance in general, Julia is involved in the management of the two EDCTP-funded clinical trials TriageTB and TB-CAPT.

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Caroline has a background in Business Administration (M.A.) and Cross-Cultural-Studies (B.A.). After working as a Key Account Manager at an inter-cultural consultancy company where she was responsible for human resource development and consultancy schemes for international business projects, she turned to project management for large-scale research collaborations. Caroline now has over ten years of experience in managing international projects in the fields of life science and medical research and has worked in a variety of funding schemes, such as FP7, Horizon 2020, IMI, and EDCTP. She is an expert in creating the structural basis for smooth and successful collaboration in large and cross-sector research initiatives and has successfully trained and mentored many junior professionals in the field of research project management.At LINQ, Caroline supports the management of the EDCTP-funded projects TB-CAPT and StatinTB, and helps these projects adapt to the new, more virtual work situation caused by the current pandemic. By coordinating efforts towards the creation of virtual learning and support environments for young scientists, she contributes to the development of timely innovative solutions for capacity building. In addition, Caroline uses her expert knowledge and long-term experience to support proposals in various programmes.

Christoph holds a PhD in Anthropology from Heidelberg University. Before joining LINQ, he worked as an independent research assistant, editor and translator, and provided science management and workshops on intercultural communication for Heidelberg University. His own primary research focused on health, wellness and illness in the South Asian context, and he participated in international research projects on medical tourism in India and on asymmetric relations between European and Asian medicine. His professional experience further includes community work at Y.R.G. CARE in India for HIV/AIDS research and education in South Asia and at the Fundación Norte in Argentina for the empowerment of indigenous groups from South America.

At LINQ, Christoph works with projects in their implementation phase and in their earliest stages, primarily in EDCTP and EIT Health programmes. He supports research teams in project planning, proposal writing, and designing and executing project implementation plans. As a project manager in the clinical trial StatinTB, funded by the EDCTP and coordinated in South Africa, he puts much focus on conceptualising, organising, and implementing capacity building activities. Christoph further supports the management of the Immunising Pregnant Women and Infants Network, IMPRINT, funded by the UK Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund. In IMPRINT, he is in charge of different communication and dissemination tasks as well as manages the network’s Public Engagement scheme.

Erika has over seven years of experience developing and implementing effective communication strategies for diverse international companies in the pharmaceutical and media industry, including the European Parliament’s two youth programs European Youth Event and European Youth Press and the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company. Prior to that, she studied journalism in both her home country Sweden and in the US. With a passion for multichannel communication, Erika is comfortable producing all types of texts, including website copy, articles, social media posts, and press releases. Having worked as an Art Director and Graphic Designer in the past, she is also a strong designer of both print and online layouts.

At LINQ, Erika develops and implements dissemination and communication strategies for several projects in the LINQ portfolio and oversees that projects follow the guidelines provided by these strategies. Erika collaborates with project partners’ communication departments and scientists to design and execute communication activities, crafts promotional content for the media and the web, and drafts, reviews, and edits communication deliverables. She supports Anna-Lena in coordinating communication efforts for EUCANCan, works with Malte and Christoph in IMPRINT, and drives dissemination activities in TriageTB together with Julia.