ProfessorDiane Sonnenwald

Diane H. Sonnenwald is Emerita Professor and Emerita Chair of Information & Communication Studies at the School of Information and Communication Studies at UCD, Dublin, Ireland, where she served as Head of School and Head of Subject. In 2015-2016 Sonnenwald was a Distinguished Visiting Professor and held an Endowed Chair at National Taiwan Normal University.Sonnenwald was the first person working outside North America to be elected President of ASIS&T, the Association for Information Science and Technology, one of the largest scholarly organizations worldwide for information science. She served as President in 2011-2012, chaired the International Relations Committee from 2013-2015, and chaired the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting held in Copenhagen. Sonnenwald also served on the editorial boards of six international journals. In these roles she has implemented initiatives to increase global participation and collaboration in the information sciences. Professor Sonnenwald conducts research on collaboration, information behaviour and collaboration technology in a variety of contexts, including inter-disciplinary and inter-organizational collaboration in emergency healthcare, digital humanities, academia and industry. A current project investigates how people interact with rare, historic books, what this interactions means to them, and the design of augmented reality/virtual reality technology to create new ways to interact with books. Sonnenwald's research has been published in over 90 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. Her work has been funded by national and international funding agencies, including the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, European Science Foundation, as well as private corporations and foundations. Other awards and recognition include the 2020 ASIS&T Award of Merit, 2017 Muhlenberg College Distinguished Alumni Award, 2016 ASIS&T Watson Davis Award, 2014 SigUSE Elfreda A. Chatman Award and 2013 ASIS&T Lecture Series Award, a U.S. Army Research Laboratory Scientific Contribution Award, Fulbright Award, UNC Junior Faculty Research Award, ALISE Research Methodology Best Paper Award, and Bell Communications Research Award of Excellence. Professor Sonnenwald has a PhD from the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University. Many of her publications can be downloaded from her profile in Researchgate at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diane_Sonnenwald. Sonnenwald currently serves as an accreditation assessor for CILIP and as a consultant to the European Union Research Executive Agency. She also serves as a chapter advisor to the ASIS&T Africa Chapter.