Anna Niarakis is an Associate Professor (Maître de Conferences) at the University of Evry, Paris-Saclay, Department of Biology, affiliated with GenHotel, Genopole since September 2015 and an INRIA delegate at the EP Lifeware, INRIA -Saclay since September 2020. She holds a bachelor in Chemistry, Master in Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and a PhD in Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, from the University of Patras, Greece, with research focusing on connective tissue diseases (Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, and Loose Arthroplasty Endoprosthesis). She has also a two years training in Pharmaceutical Technology and Drug Design for Alzheimer’s’ disease and her post-doctoral studies were in the fields of Computational Systems Biology for Allergy (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) and Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Analyses for Cancer (Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif). She is a project coordinator of the Disease Maps consortium and a co-leader of the COVID-19 Disease Map initiative and an active member of CoLoMoTo (Consortium for Logical Modelling Tools) and SysMod (Systems Modelling) consortia. The focus of her current research interests is on computational systems biology approaches aiming at integrating different biological data in forms of networks, and subsequent structural and dynamical studies in order to elucidate pathogenetic mechanisms in complex human disease.