
Anna's main research areas are Bioinformatics, Databases, and Data Science Methods, where she applies conceptual modeling, data integration, and semantic web technologies to biological and genomic data. She authored more than 30 publications in international journals and proceedings of international conferences. She is active in the conceptual modeling and database communities, with several paper presentations and the organization of two tutorials (ER and EDBT conferences) and four workshops on conceptual models and web applications for life sciences (ER and ICWE conferences). In 2021 Anna was a recipient of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Award and in 2022 of the "Best Ph.D. thesis award on Big Data & Data Science" from the CINI Big Data Lab (within the itaDATA 2022 conference). Participation to European research projects: GeCo (ERC), ViruSurf (EIT).