Emma Molls (she/they) is the Director of Open Research & Publishing at the University of Minnesota. In this position, Emma leads a department that includes publishing, research data services, research information management, and computational research. Their department is also home to the Data Curation Network. Emma works to integrate open data and research into the University’s research enterprise.
Prior to this appointment, Emma spent six years as the Publishing Librarian at Minnesota and three years a social science and scholarly communication librarian at Iowa State University. They’ve served as president of Library Publishing Coalition, board chair of Journal of Librarian Scholarly Communication and Librarianship, member of MIT Press’s Library Advisory Board, and currently serves as board secretary of Prepare + Prosper, an economic justice non-profit that provides free financial literacy services and tax preparation for Minnesotans.
Emma is a proud alum of the first OpenCon cohort.