Marianna Milano is an assistant professor and a senior research scientist in the field of Omics and Biological Network Data Analysis at the University Magna Græcia, of Catanzaro, Italy. Her research interests are focused on the development of innovative algorithms for the analysis of clinical and omic data through the application of biological knowledge formalized in ontologies; the extraction of knowledge from biological and biomedical data; the use of formal knowledge representation tools in the field of computational biology; and the development of algorithms for the analysis of biological and biomedical networks through the application of graph theory. She is a Member of BITS (Bioinformatics Italian Society). In 2022, she organized and chaired the 1st Workshop on “Foundations of Network Analysis” in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2022). In 2023, she organized and chaired the first thematic track on “Network Models and Analysis: From Foundations to Complex Systems (NMA)", in conjunction with the 2023 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (ICCS 2023). She currently serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals, as well as for national and international conferences, and as a chair and program committee member of several national and international conferences, managing many Special Issues.