Annamaria Vernone graduated from the University of Turin with an M.A. degree in computer science. She served as a Data Administrator, Methodological Support, and Functional Analyst. She carried out research activities on watermarking techniques in multimedia and medical environments at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Oncology, University of Turin. She specialized in the analysis of the main open biological and medical datasets available online. At the Department of Oncology, she applied partitional and gerarchical cluster methods to analyze the human proteins and the relative frequencies of their amino acids as a model of a new mechanism modulating protein expression. After receiving an M.A. degree in psychology from the University of Turin, she is currently working at the Department of Neurosciences, "Rita Levi Montalcini," at the University of Turin, where she manages open data.