Maria Nikoghosyan graduated with a Diploma degree from the Russian-Armenian University, where she is currently pursuing her PhD. Since 2018, she has been part of the Bioinformatics Group (BIG) at the Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA, initially as a Junior Researcher. In 2021, she joined ABI and now serves as a Senior Researcher in the Vine Bioinformatics group. Her research interests encompass the study of complex disease development across diverse human populations, as well as grapevine genomics.