Sandra Collins (librarian)
Sandra Collins is an Irish mathematician and leading academic librarian, who is the university librarian of University College Dublin, Ireland's largest university, since 2022. She was director of the National Library of Ireland from 2015.
Career
Collins attended University College Dublin, graduating with a BSc in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics in 1991, and receiving a PhD in Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics in 1996.She worked as a lecturer in mathematics at Dublin City University, with Ericsson, and as director of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy.
She was appointed director of the National Library of Ireland in 2015, for a five-year term, and agreed a second term from 2020. She has been the university librarian at University College Dublin since 2022.