Dr Linh Tran is currently a senior research fellow at the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP), University of Wollongong (UOW) and she is also a recipient of the Career Development Fellowship grant from the Cancer Institute News South Wales (2022-2025). Dr Tran is coordinating and leading microdosimetry research in Proton therapy, heavy ion therapy (HIT) and space research at the CMRP. She has published 69 peer review papers in a field of radiation detectors for space and medicine.

Dr Tran is recognised emerging leader of particle therapy and space radiation research (CI with funding > $4M from NHMRC, ARC, CINSW, Research Council of Norway and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Dr Tran is a recipient of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Farrington Daniels Award for best paper in Medical Physics, 2018. She was named a UOW Impact Maker (2019) and a recipient of Dame Bridget Ogilvie Award for Research Excellence (2021) and Glenn Knoll Postdoctoral award at the IEEE NPSS (2022).