Anna Tramontano was trained as a physicist but she soon became fascinated by the complexity of biology and by the promises of computational biology. After a post-doctoral period at UCSF, she joined the Biocomputing Programme of the EMBL in Heidelberg. In 1990 she moved back to Italy to work in the Merck Research Laboratories near Rome. In 2001, she returned to the academic world as a Chair Professor of Biochemistry in "La Sapienza" University in Rome where she continues to pursue her scientific interests on protein structure prediction and analysis in the Department of Biochemical Sciences. She is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Scientific Council of Institute Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, and the organizing Committee of the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) initiative.She is a member of the EMBL Scientific Adivsory Committee, of the EBI Advisory Committee, of the Scientfic Advisory Board of the University of Zurich Research Priority Program "Systems biology/Functional Genomics". She is Associate Editor of Bioinformatics and Proteins and a member of the Editorial Board The FEBS Journal.
She was awarded the prize for Natural Sciences of the Italian Government, the “Marotta Prize” of the Italian National Academy of Science and the Minerva Prize for Scientific Research, the KAUST Investigator Award and has published four books (Bioinformatica - Zanichelli; The ten most wanted solutions in Protein Bioinformatics - CRC Press; Protein Structure Prediction - Wiley; Introduction to Bioinformatics - CRC Press).
She has been vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology (about 1500 members) and part of the steering committee of the European networks, BioSapiens and Elixir.
