Alessandra Candian is an Open Science and Academic Skills teacher at the Delft University of Technology Library. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry in 2012 from the University of Nottingham (UK) and worked as postdoctoral researcher in the field of astrochemistry for several years in the Netherlands.

Alessandra now develops and teaches courses on Information Literacy and Open Science for students and PhD candidates; she is also part of a team working on the application of an Open Science skill framework for researchers.