Our Team

Claudia has been working in international research and innovation projects for more than 15 years, supporting successful applications to a wide array of national and international funding programs such as BMBF, MRC/UKRI, NIH, the EU Framework Programmes, IMI, EDCTP or EIT Health. She has guided more than 40 resulting projects with funding of up to 28 million EUR through grant preparation and implementation, and many of those to successful follow-up initiatives. Claudia has strong people skills and thrives on new challenges. Her particular focus in recent years have been clinical studies and collaboration with industry.

At LINQ, Claudia uses her experience in supporting international research projects primarily to facilitate the planning and preparation of new initiatives. She guides and coordinates project design and proposal writing and supports new consortia in their set-up phase. Moreover, she develops actionable risk mitigation strategies and monitors their implementation to ensure successful completion of each project and help maximise impact. Claudia supports stakeholder management and guides networking both within the context of individual projects and beyond.

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Vera did her PhD in the field of Molecular Biology and Tropical Medicine at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, and the Department of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine at the LMU, Munich, Germany. As part of her PhD she developed diagnostic PCR assays for mycobacterial diseases under tropical and field conditions and established field laboratories in several countries in Africa. Vera has more than 15 years of experience in the field of collaborative research and innovation management. In her previous position, she oversaw project planning, proposal management and proposal writing and supported large interdisciplinary consortia in a variety of different funding schemes, including BMBF, the EU Framework Programmes, and IMI/IHI.

As a Senior Advisor at LINQ, Vera guides a portfolio of projects funded under EDCTP3 and Horizon Europe throughout their implementation phase and helps maximize project impact. She is also involved in the planning and set-up of new initiatives, providing strategic advice and hands-on proposal support.

After obtaining a degree in languages and communication, Britta started working in the administration of international projects and has now accumulated over 12 years of experience in managing collaborative research and innovation projects under a variety of funding frameworks such as FP7, Horizon 2020, EDCTP, and BMBF. She draws on her strong people skills, broad knowledge about specific funding requirements, and a detailed understanding of what it takes to efficiently plan and execute complex initiatives. Britta is committed to creating an atmosphere of collaboration, forging strong partnerships between diverse players from across the world, and helping them to successfully implement their projects.

At LINQ, Britta uses her broad range of expertise to manage the NIH project ENDxTB as well as MARC-SE Africa and PROTECT, both funded under EDCTP3. Additionally, Britta supports central processes at company level by implementing and monitoring invoicing procedures and effective record-keeping practices.

Alessia holds a Master of Science in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Before joining LINQ, she worked as an Associate Director, Research and Development, for a drug development company in Berlin, Germany, where she managed various scientific projects. In this role, she collaborated with scientists at universities, research centers and pharmaceutical companies as well as with a German patent office on two patent applications. Her portfolio included a drug-development project focused on the treatment of depression, a drug-repurposing study focused on schizophrenia and an observational study looking at Parkinson’s disease. While still in this job, Alessia completed a one-year traineeship with the Contract Research Organisation CCDRD AG. She later joined the organisation as a Clinical Project Manager, managing several phase I studies for generics, a phase I study with patients with schizophrenia and two phase III studies on patients with endometriosis.

At LINQ, Alessia uses her experience in managing diverse international research studies to provide project management related consultancy. She also supports Vax2Muc, and leads project management activities in the WORMVACS project, both funded under Horizon Europe. Moreover, Alessia is involved in the proposal process for new initiatives.

Hannah holds a Master of Arts in North American Studies, with an educational background in history, literature and political science. In her research, she focused on the history of medicine and medical research. Before joining LINQ, she worked at the Freie Universität Berlin for several years, where she helped conceptualize and implement effective content and communication strategies for one of the university’s Excellence Clusters. Through her work, she has experience in creating various types of content and website copy, social media campaigns, academic and non-academic articles and press releases.

At LINQ, Hannah supports Christoph in the implementation of dissemination and communication activities for GenPath Africa and IMPRINT. Specifically, she crafts promotional content for the media and the web, and drafts, reviews, and edits communication deliverables. Together with Claudia she coordinates cross-cluster communication within the GenEpi Network, funded by EDCTP3 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Hannah is also involved in the proposal process for new initiatives.