Anna Tramontano †

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 working at the Biocomputing Programme of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, she moved back to Italy to work in the Merck Research Laboratories. Later she returned to the academic world as a Chair Professor of Biochemistry in the "Sapienza" University in Rome where she continues to pursue her scientific interests on protein structure prediction and analysis. She is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and of the Scientific Council of Institute Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of several prestigious Institutions including the Institute Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, the EMBL, the EBI,  the MPI for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics,  the Centro Nacional de  Biotecnología in Madrid and  the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw.

She has received, among others, the Tartufari Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei, the KAUST Global Research Partnership award, the special Government Prize for Natural Sciences and the  Marotta Prize of the National Academy of Science.