Lindi joined the Burnet Institute in 2020 as a Senior Research Fellow and head of the HIV, Inflammation and Microbiome Working Group. She also continues to lead a research group in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cape Town (UCT), is an Associate Member of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at UCT, Honorary Scientist at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Lindi has been involved in HIV and genital microbiome and immunology research for over 10 years. She completed her Ph.D. in Medical Virology at UCT in 2012, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, also at UCT. She is currently leading or co-leading two clinical cohort studies and a translational research study in South Africa. The primary focus of this research is to understand the socio-behavioural and biological factors associated with HIV acquisition risk in women and to develop tools to reduce this risk.