Anne Linhardt's Biography

Anne Linhardt, Scientist, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

Dr. Anne Linhardt studied Polymer and Colloid Chemistry, as well as Material Chemistry and Catalysis at the University of Bayreuth. For her doctoral thesis, on biodegradable polyphosphazenes as intravenously administered drug delivery systems, she moved to Johannes Kepler University in Linz in 2013 and completed her PhD studies in polymer chemistry there in 2017. As part of her PhD, she was also able to deepen her interdisciplinary knowledge for three months at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research at the University of Maryland. From 2016-2020, she was part of the development team of MEON Medical Solutions GmbH & Co KG in Graz with focus on the development of an analyzer for heterogeneous immunoassays and clinical chemistry. Since mid-2020 she is part of MATERIALS the Institute for Surface Technologies and Photonics of JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Weiz as a research associate. She is mainly engaged in DNA amplification and detection in microfluidics-based systems.