Anna Tonazzini was a Senior Researcher at CNR-ISTI, the Signals and Images Lab, in Pisa, Italy (currently retired). She obtained a master's degree in Mathematics in 1981 at the University of Pisa. Since joining CNR in 1984, she has coordinated national and international projects on neural networks and learning, computational biology, and document image processing and has been the supervisor of various postdoctoral fellowships. She has published more than 60 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and more than 80 papers related to international conferences and workshops. Her current research interests are image analysis for cultural heritage and computational methods for structural genomics.