Staff Profiles

Paolo Acquaviva

Coordinator BA Modern Languages

Pascale Baker

Deputy Head | Head of Portuguese

Katherine Brown

Co-head of Teaching and Learning

Diana Battaglia

Erasmus (Spanish)

Jósephine Baudry

French Lectrice

Marco Bellardi

Head of Italian

Manu Braganca

LLC coordinator

Laia Bosch Oliver

Eva Bru-Dominguez

Head of Spanish | Sustainability Officer

Michael Brophy

Chair, UCD Languages Strategy Working Group

Grace Wenling Cao

Co-head of EDI

Lydia Capitano

School Manager

Javier Carpes Salar

Derval Conroy

Head of French

Siobhán Donovan

BEd with Gaeilge & Modern Languages Rep | College VP for T&L

Mary Farrelly

College VP for EDI

Mary Gallagher

Ciara Gorman

Sandra Guerrero Garcia

Matthew Hilborn

PostDoc in Spanish

Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo

Sherry Ishak

DAAD Lektorin

Sherry can assist with any inquiries regarding the DAAD and studying in Germany.

Mara Josi

Erasmus (Italian) | Global Studies Rep | Outreach

Serena Laiena

AdAstra Fellow in Italian, Head of Research, Impact and Innovation

Matteo Leta

Senior PostDoc in Italian

Ruth Lockhart

Stephen Lucek

On Leave T1, 2025/26

Bettina Migge

Head of Graduate Studies | MA Linguistics and Applied Linguistics coordinator

Feargal Murphy

Teaching & Learning | Erasmus (Linguistics)

Vitor Neves Fernandez

Emer O'Beirne

On Leave T1, 2025/26

Jamal Ouhalla

Melanie Pape

School Administrator | EDI

Sandrine Peraldi

Head of Linguistics

Siofra Pierse

On leave 2025/26

Tara Plunkett

Coordinator BA Modern Languages

Gillian Pye

Head of German | Erasmus (German)

Lucille Raynal

Mina Ricci

On leave 2025/26

María Ana Rodíguez

Julio Sanz

Stephen Schwartz

Head of Global Engagement

Carmela Simmarano

Douglas Smith

MA Languages and Image Studies coordinator

Joseph Twist

Ana Vera

Sustainability Officer

Heidi Zojer