Simona E. Rombo was a Research Fellow at ICAR-CNR since July 2010 to September 2012, and at DEIS of Universitá della Calabria (Cosenza, Italy) since March 2006 to June 2010, where she collaborated with Professor Luigi Palopoli. Her main research activities focus on Bioinformatics, Algorithms and Data Structures and Data Mining, with applications in Data Compression and Information Retrieval. She contributed to develop and/or coordinated the development of several software tools in these fields.