Diane H. Sonnenwald is a Visiting Professor, Distinguished Endowed Chair in the Taiwan Global Networking Talent Program at the Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University.

Sonnenwald is the only person outside North America to be elected President of ASIS&T, the Association for Information Science and Technology. She served as President in 2011-2012, chaired the International Relations Committee from 2013-2015, and is chairing the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting that will be in Copenhagen in October 2016. In these roles she has implemented initiatives to increase global participation and collaboration in the information sciences.

Sonnenwald’s research focuses on collaboration, technology design and use, and information behaviour in a variety of contexts. She has authored or edited over 90 scholarly publications. She serves on the editorial boards of five journals, including JASIS&T and Information Research. She has been awarded over 20 grants from national and international foundations, corporations, and funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, the European Science Foundation, the Motorola Foundation and the HW Wilson Foundation.

Sonnenwald was awarded the 2014 SigUSE Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award and the 2013 ASIS&T Lecture Series Award.  Other awards and recognition include a Fulbright Professorship, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Scientific Contribution Award, University of North Carolina Junior Faculty Research Award, ALISE Research Methodology Best Paper Award, and Bell Communications Research Award of Excellence. She has a PhD from Rutgers University.