Linda Ostermann is a research associate at the Human Technology Center (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University. In VeSPoTec, she focuses on the role of knowledge, non-knowledge as well as knowledge strategies in verification and arms control regimes from a social science perspective.

She studied French and Political Science (B. A.) at the University of Münster and the University of Pau (France) and International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research (M. A.) at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt. In addition to her Master studies, she completed training as a mediator as well as a certificate programme in gender studies and worked at KfW Development Bank on the topics of peace and security, human rights, and gender equality.