Dr. Linda Holland is an Assistant Professor in Microbiology at the School of Biotechnology, DCU. Linda completed her undergraduate in Microbiology in University College Cork. Following this she received IRCSET funding to complete her PhD in University College Dublin where she studied biofilm regulation of the bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus epidermidis. She continued her research in pathogenic biofilm regulation during her post-doctoral fellowship with Prof Geraldine Butler at UCD. Here she focussed on biofilm formation of the emerging fungal pathogen Candida parapsilosis. In 2013, Dr. Holland was awarded a prestigious IRC-Marie Curie ELEVATE post-doctoral award. This allowed Dr. Holland to continue her research in fungal genomics at the University of Melbourne, Australia and UCD.

In 2016 Dr Holland established her own research group at DCU with a focus on polymicrobial biofilm infections. Linda was awarded a Wellcome Trust Seed Award to investigate the interactions that occur between Staphylococcus aureus and Candida parapsilosis during polymicrobial biofilm formation. Her current research is focused on establishing an ex vivo wound infection model to study host-pathogen interactions, novel treatments and diagnostic methodologies.