She is an associate professor and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University.
Her dissertation, Topological Strings and Quantum Curves, was supervised by Robbert Dijkgraaf.
[3][2] Hollands did her postdoctoral research with Sergei Gukov at the California Institute of Technology.
In 2015, Hollands became an associate professor at the Department of Math at Heriot-Watt University.
[4] In 2018 the London Mathematical Society gave her their Anne Bennett Prize "in recognition of her outstanding research at the interface between quantum theory and geometry and of her leadership in mathematical outreach activities".