DrSandra Collins

Dr Sandra Collins is University Librarian at University College Dublin. Originally a mathematician, she has worked in digital innovation and cultural heritage over 30 years in the public and private sectors. She was previously the Director of the National Library of Ireland, and the founding Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland in the Royal Irish Academy. She received her PhD in nonlinear fluid dynamics from UCD in 1996. She has been recognised as a female role model and one of the Top 100 Women in STEM, she received four Irish eGovernment Awards and the 2020 UCD Alumni Award for Research, Innovation and Impact.
She is the Chairperson of the Irish Government’s Advisory Committee on the Representation of Women and Women’s Stories in the National Collections, and a member of the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland and the Board of the Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL). She has served on the Irish Government’s Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations, the Government’s Open Data Governance Board, the Government’s Advisory Forum for ‘Creating our Future’, the Boards of HEAnet, the Research Data Alliance, and the Chester Beatty Library, as well as multiple European Commission Expert Advisory Groups.