Management - Staff - Board - Scientific Advisory Board - Fellows
PEOPLE AT LINXS
LINXS is led by a Management Group with Staff, a Board, and a Scientific Advisory Board. Finally, the work of LINXS would not be possible without the efforts of all its fellows.
MANAGEMENT
LINXS Vice-director
anna.stradner@fkem1.lu.se
LINXS Vice-Director responsible for the focus area of soft matter. Anna is a Professor at the Division of Physical Chemistry at Lund University specializing on biocolloids studied by scattering techniques. Her current research focuses on the properties of concentrated protein solutions with a particular interest in protein dynamics under crowded conditions. She is a LINXS IPDD Core Group Member, IPDD WG 2 Leader and Dynamics (Legacy theme) Core Group Member.
LINXS Co-Director
jorgen.larsson@fysik.lth.se
LINXS Co-Director responsible for the focus area of hard matter.
Jörgen Larsson is a professor and the head of the division for Atomic Physics at the Dept. of Physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University. His research topic is ultrafast dynamics on the timescale of a phonon period in hard condensed matter. He teaches both basic and advanced courses at LTH. He has been responsible for building the beamline FemtoMAX at MAX IV and is a frequent user of Synchrotron radiation facilities (including MAX IV) and Free-electron lasers.
LINXS Co-Director
LINXS Co-Director responsible for the focus area of Life Science. Emanuel works as a Researcher at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University. He also works as a Lund University Node Coordinator for InfraVis - a new Swedish National Research Infrastructure for Data Visualization with 9 Swedish partner universities, and as Coordinator and Application expert at CIPA – a cross faculty infrastructure for image processing and analysis at Lund University. In addition, he works as a Cross-border Infrastructure Ambassador for the Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium (HALRIC), which is an Interreg project with 20 partner organizations. Emanuel is also a LINXS fellow of the following LINXS Themes - Northern Lights on Food, IPDD and Heritage Science.
Head of Administration
anna.ntinidou@linxs.lu.se
Anna Ntinidou is the head of administration responsible for operations and supporting future strategic and operational development. She is a senior project manager with long experience in implementing EU and nationally funded transdisciplinary projects. She is a civil engineer with a Masters in innovation, speaks five languages and has lived and worked in four European countries .
STAFF
Head of Administration
anna.ntinidou@linxs.lu.se
Anna Ntinidou is the head of administration responsible for operations and supporting future strategic and operational development. She is a senior project manager with long experience in implementing EU and nationally funded transdisciplinary projects. She is a civil engineer with a Masters in innovation, speaks five languages and has lived and worked in four European countries .
Strategic Development
martin.stankovski@linxs.lu.se
Martin Stankovski Clark is a project manager and senior strategist from the central Lund University Cooperation Office. He works part-time as a development strategist for LINXS, and has a research background in Solid State Theory, a branch of applied quantum mechanics.
Science Activities Manager
josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se
Josefin supports LINXS operations and is responsible for overall coordination of activities. Josefin has a PhD in planetary geology and experience in using large scale research facilities.
Administrative & event assistant
Mia provides administrative support and assists with the coordination of LINXS activities. She holds a degree in event coordination and has experience managing various cultural events.
Communications Officer
noomi.egan@linxs.lu.se
Noomi Egan is responsible for strategic and science communications at LINXS, including the LINXS Newsletter. She also works with press and public relations and communication related to research conferences and events.
Project Manager – AMBER
camilla.bjorklund@fsi.lu.se
Camilla works as a project manager at the Collaboration Office, Lund University (LU). At LINXS, she manages the EU cofund project AMBER (Advanced Multiscale Biological imaging with European Research infrastructures).
Camilla has a master’s degree in Business Administration from Lund University, and more than 20 years of working experience in market communication and building relationships. She has work experience from international companies within the pharma industry and commissioned education at Lund University.
Project Coordinator – AMBER
Tea is a Project Coordinator at AMBER, providing daily coordination and administrative support for the programme, including project reporting, communication, and facilitating collaboration between Lund University and AMBER partners.
Since 2022, Tea has assisted project administration at Medical Faculty, supporting HALOS and recently coordinating WP3 Hanseatic Science Cloud for HALRIC project.
Science Village Scandinavia/LINXS Young Researchers’ Initiative
daniel.sarabi@maxiv.lu.se
Daniel supports the Young Researchers' Initiative at LINXS, helping to extend its reach within the research community. Previously a postdoc at LINXS, he is now based at Science Village Scandinavia, where he works with the BEAMS for Industry project.
BOARD
Board Chair
Per Persson is Professor of Molecular Geochemistry and Dean at the Faculty of Science. He received his undergraduate degree from Lund University, PhD at Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and postdoctoral training at Stanford University. He is elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
His research focuses on processes occurring at the interfaces between aqueous solutions, microbes and mineral surfaces in aquatic and soil environments.
Board Member
Margaret McNamee is Professor of Fire Safety Engineering and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Engineering with responsibility for research and research infrastructure. She received her undergraduate degree from Sydney University in Australia and PhD at Chalmers. S
he is presently the Chair of the Board of NanoLund and is the Co-chair of the Board of ELLIIT, two important Strategic Research Areas at the technical faculty.
Board Member
Jonas Larsson is a Professor in Molecular medicine at Lund University and Deputy dean at the faculty of Medicine with responsibility for research, infrastructure and recruitment. He received his medical education and doctorate at Lund University and did his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School.
Jonas Larsson leads a research program that focuses on regulation of blood stem cells with the aim to enhance cell-based therapies for malignant and hereditary blood disorders. He has been active in the development and leadership of strategic research environments at Lund University, such as the Lund Stem Cell Center and the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM)
Board Member
Lars Kloo is Professor in Chemistry at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His main research interest is the identification of conceptually new materials for fundamental insights or renewable energy applications involving synthesis, as well as materials and device characterization. Large scale research infrastructures and supercomputer resources are regularly used in the characterization.
Board Member
Olof Karis is the Director of the MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden, a role he has held since July 2023, following his service as Interim Director from March 2022 to June 2023.
Prior to joining MAX IV, he was Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University from 2015 to 2022, where he was appointed Professor of Physics in 2011. His research focuses on electronic structure and ultrafast phenomena in magnetic materials. His group has developed instrumentation to study magnetisation dynamics using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation generated through high harmonic generation.
Board Member
Helmut Schober is Director General of the European Spallation Source (ESS), a European intergovernmental laboratory under construction in Lund, Sweden. Before moving to ESS Helmut held the position of Director for the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL).
He studied physics at the University of Regensburg, before going on to the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA) and specializing in the spectroscopy of molecular systems. His research has focused on fullerenes, the dynamics of liquids and glasses and on neutron instrumentation. 2019 he received the Award of Honorary Doctorate by the Université Grenoble Alpes. 2022 Helmut Schober was appointed as Affiliated Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Physics.
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
AREA HARD MATTER
SAB member 2023-2026
Kristiaan Temst is a full professor in experimental physics at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He is the past chairperson of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and he is currently the head of the Quantum Solid State Physics research unit. Apart from his position at KU Leuven, he also has a part-time appointment at the micro-electronics research center imec, also located in Leuven. His research interests focus on the MBE-growth and structural characterization as well as the magnetic, superconducting, ferroelectric, and vibrational properties of thin films, nanowires and nanoparticles. He is a frequent user of synchrotron, neutron, muon and ion beam facilities and serves or has served in many beamtime allocation review committees. He is currently the Chair of the ESFRI Physical Sciences and Engineering strategy working group.
AREA LIFE SCIENCE
SAB Member 2022-2028
Alexandra is leading the X-ray nano-neuroimaging group at the European Synchrotron. With her team, she develops instrumentation and methods for image acquisition, reconstruction and analysis, together with sample preparation approaches tailored for nanoscale X-ray 3D bioimaging. By pushing the spatial resolution and scalability frontiers in coherent X-ray nanotomography, she aims to enable new types of inquiries into tissues and cells, with a focus on neural circuits..
AREA SOFT MATTER
SAB Member 2025-2027
Thomas Hellweg is Professor of Physical and Biophysical Chemistry at Bielefeld University. He is also the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at Bielefeld University. The main research interests of the Hellweg group are smart microgels and smart microgel based materials (e.g. smart membranes for electrochemical applications), microemulsions confined in porous materials, polymer surfactant interactions, membrane biophysics with a focus of lipid bilayer interaction with saponins (saponins are plant based bio-surfactants with usually very strong pharmaceutical activity).
AREA HARD MATTER
SAB Member 2025-2028
Markus Braden is a Professor of Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interest is in transition-metal compounds with strong electronic correlations focusing on unconventional superconductors, the impact of strong spin-orbit coupling and multiferroic order. The group combines various X-ray and neutron scattering techniques to study the magnetic and crystal structure as well as the associated excitations with the growth of large single crystals. In collaboration with TU Munich the group constructed a cold triple-axis spectrometer optimized for polarization analysis.
AREA SOFT MATTER
SAB Member June 2026-2029
Victoria Garcia Sakai is a science division head at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility in the UK, responsible for the neutron spectroscopy infrastructure. Victoria is an expert in quasi-elastic neutron scattering with particularly interests in understanding the role of dynamics in the structure-dynamics-function relationships of biological macromolecules, functional polymer systems and cryopreservation mechanisms. Victoria holds a PhD in thermodynamics and 20+ years of neutron scattering experience across a number of facilities worldwide. She sits on major international scientific boards, now Chair of the MLZ Science Advisory board, and previously chair of the ESS Scientific Advisory Council. Alongside her research, she is a passionate about education and empowering women in STEM fields.
AREA LIFE SCIENCE
SAB Member 2026-2029
Teresa Carlomagno is Full Professor of Integrative Structural Biology at the University of Birmingham, UK. She leads the national biomolecular NMR laboratory hosted in Birmingham that provides access to ultra-high-field NMR and state-of-the-art expertise in NMR methodologies and applications in biology, biomedicine and chemical biology.
She is an internationally recognised leader in integrative structural biology (ISB), specialising in the study of complex and dynamic biomolecular assemblies. Her research focuses on understanding how flexible or even disordered molecular partners communicate, adapt, and function together—work where she has consistently pushed the boundaries of NMR both in solution and solid-state.
Teresa combines NMR spectroscopy with complementary methods including X‑ray scattering, electron microscopy and small‑angle scattering. She also develops advanced computational approaches that enable the integration and interpretation of diverse experimental data within unified structural models. He laboratory focuses on molecular machinery involved in RNA metabolism, gene expression regulation, DNA repair ad signalling.
PREVIOUS SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
AREA SOFT MATTER
SAB member 2022- May 2026
Jan Skov Pedersen is a Professor of Chemistry at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research is on physical chemistry of soft matter, colloidal polymers science, and biophysics with emphasis of application of small-angle X-ray scattering for structural investigations. His work also includes instrument and modelling methods development.
AREA LIFE SCIENCE
Former SAB Member 2022-2026
Annette is an Associate Professor at the Department of Drug Design, University of Copenhagen. Her research projects are on structure and dynamics of complex macromolecular systems using several X-ray and neutron based techniques, as well as complementary biophysical studies. Her main focus is the study of amyloidogenic proteins and fibrillation processes using small angle X-ray scattering.
AREA SOFT MATTER
SAB Chair 2022-2025, SAB Member 2017-2025
Christiane is the Head of the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB). Her research focuses on the thermodynamics, structure and dynamics of molecular condensed phases, liquid, solid and amorphous. She is a leading expert in several experimental techniques and methods bridging the gap between time and space scales, improving theoretical concepts and analytical modelling.
AREA HARD MATTER
Former SAB Member 2021-2024
Andrew is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, a Tutorial Fellow of Oriel College, and Associate Head of the Department of Physics. He is an experimentalist with broad interests in the fundamental properties of quantum materials, especially superconductors, magnetic materials, and topological semimetals. His group uses neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques to investigate novel electronic ground states and associated physical phenomena.
Profile page at the university: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/boothroyd/research
AREA SOFT MATTER
Former SAB Chair 2021-2023, former SAB Member 2017-2023
Stefan was a full professor (Soft Condensed Matter Physics) at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Interested in the physics of soft condensed matter, in particular its non-equilibrium behaviour. His research focused on the behaviour of colloidal systems under external fields, their relaxation to equilibrium, and metastable states.
AREA LIFE SCIENCES
Former SAB Chair 2017-2021, former SAB Member 2017-2022
Lise is a Professor and Head of the The Structural Biophysics Group at the
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science, Denmark. Her main research topics include biophysics and physical chemistry with the main focus on structural investigations of macromolecules and their aggregates in solution.
AREA LIFE SCIENCES
Former SAB Member 2017-2022
Marco is the Head of the SLS Tomography group
and Professor for X-ray imaging at the ETH Zürich. With his team, he is working on novel X-ray based instruments and methods for non-invasive investigations of samples at various length scales, ranging from single cells up to humans. Research areas encompass a host of X-ray based imaging techniques for biosystems and clinical applications.
AREA SOFT MATTER
Former SAB member 2017-2021
Daan is a former Head of the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University and the current Director of Research. The Frenkel group focuses on the numerical exploration of routes to design novel, self-assembling structures and materials. In particular, the group is interested in the possibilities that bio-molecular recognition and motor action offer to create complex, nano-structured materials.
AREA HARD MATTER
Former SAB member 2017-2020
Christian is the Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute and Professor of physics at the University of Geneva, ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne. His research projects focus on systematic studies of strongly correlated quantum phenomena in low-dimensional spin systems, single-molecule and frustrated magnets, and novel emergent materials.
LINXS FELLOWS
Fellows shine
fellows Smile
Fellows PandA
Fellows Semiconductors
Fellows Quantum Materials
Fellows RheoMAXESS
Fellows AIDA
fellows chemistry of life
fellows environment and climate
Fellows heritage science
Fellows Legacy Imaging
Fellows legacy Dynamics
Fellows legacy ISB
Fellows Legacy New materials
fellows legacy northern lights on food
FELLOWS legacy IPDD
LINXS Director
Trevor.Forsyth@linxs.lu.se
Professor placed at the Medical Faculty of Lund University in a tri-faculty appointment together with the Faculties of Science and Engineering. 2000-2022 I was on secondment to the Partnership for Structural Biology at the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, where I hold a Senior Fellowship and am Head of the Life Sciences Group. I was appointed to a personal Chair in Biophysics in 2004. Prior to that I was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Physics at Keele.