Dóra Gaálné Kalydy is the deputy director general of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. She is responsible for the Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ) that runs at the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, managing the Hungarian national consortium for transformative OA agreements. She is also in charge of the library's daily operations, renewing traditional library services and being involved in the library's international relations.

She has been a LIBER Executive Board member since 2022 and a LIBER Citizen Science Working Group member. She also actively participates in the work of the Association of Hungarian Librarians; she has been vice president of the Association since May 2023 and is head of the Academic and Special Libraries’ Section.

Her present field is renewing the Hungarian research libraries’ landscape, and the role of libraries in Citizen Science to preserve and disseminate cultural heritage.