Annamaria Ficara is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Messina, Italy. She received her B.S. degree (with honors) in Computer Science from the University of Messina, Italy, in 2016; her M.S. degree (with honors) in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Messina, Italy, in 2018; and her Ph.D. degree in Mathematics and Computational Sciences from the University of Palermo, Italy, in 2022. Her main research interests are network science, social network analysis, criminal networks, and complex systems. She is part of the following research groups at the University of Messina: Complex Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Future Computing Research Laboratory (FCRLab), and e-Health Continuum Research Lab (eHCR LAB). She is involved in national and international projects, such as SAMOTHRACE, EU-H2020 NEUROKIT-2E and ATM. She is the author of several scientific articles and proceedings of international conferences. She won the best paper and presentation award at the international conference EAI FABULOUS 2021 with a paper about using a multilayer approach on criminal networks.
She is an Editorial Board Member for the Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications and an Academic Editor for Plos Complex Systems, and expert reviewer of more than 100 scientific articles for more than 20 prestigious journals of the computer science area.