Professor Linse has received numerous awards for her work, including the Cozzarelli Prize, awarded by the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2007), the IUPAC Distinguished Woman in Chemistry prize (2011), and Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Great Prize (2014). In 2009, Professor Linse became a Member of the Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry. Her current research focuses on protein misfolding and self-assembly, including the aggregation process, the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, and coaggregation between lipids and proteins.