Linda Nhu Laursen is Head of Research and Associate Professor at Aalborg University’s Design Lab, Denmark. Additionally, she is author on several books, director of the Danish Center for Design Research, chairing the Product Lifetime and the Environment Conference 2025, and the 2024 winner of the Kamma Prize a female leadership award. 

Her past includes experiences as both an entrepreneur and in a multinational corporation. As research leader at the AAU Design Lab, she has created a particular emphasis on design at every step in the value chain, enabling circular design and consumption, the design of long-lasting products, and the reuse, repurpose, repair, and reduction of waste materials. Her aim is to contribute to how Danish design may again lead and take a societal and planetary responsibility. 

Linda is an active public voice pushing to renew the design industry, both through talks and press, but indeed through research experiments with companies. She is the principal investigator of several research projects that drive design experiments in industry and society. Research projects focused on responsible design, repair, and zero waste, supported by DFF, IF, and SN foundations.