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Linda grew up in the Netherlands where she completed her MSc in Marine Biology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (1995 -2000). She worked as a research assistant cultivating microalgae at the department of Aquatic Microbiology, Universiteit van Amsterdam where she also completed her PhD on the impact of environmental factors on toxic and bioactive peptide production by harmful cyanobacteria (2003-2007). As of 2009 she has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Queensland. Her current research focuses on Symbiodinium diversity on the Great Barrier Reef with the aim to understand how environmental factors and host specificity affect symbiont community diversity in the face of a changing climate. More broadly her research interests lie at the intersection of microbiology, phytoplankton physiology and marine & molecular ecology.