Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

, born August 19, 1947, in

Ljubljana {{Infobox settlement , name = Ljubljana , official_name = , settlement_type = Capital city , image_skyline = {{multiple image , border = infobox , perrow = 1/2/2/1 , total_widt ...

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

, whose specialty is

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

and

network analysis Network analysis can refer to: * Network theory, the analysis of relations through mathematical graphs ** Social network analysis, network theory applied to social relations * Network analysis (electrical circuits) See also *Network planning and d ...

. Her specific interests include

multivariate analysis Multivariate statistics is a subdivision of statistics encompassing the simultaneous observation and analysis of more than one outcome variable, i.e., '' multivariate random variables''. Multivariate statistics concerns understanding the differ ...

(theory and application in social sciences, medicine, etc.),

cluster analysis Cluster analysis or clustering is the data analyzing technique in which task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more Similarity measure, similar (in some specific sense defined by the ...

(constraints, multi-criteria clustering),

social network analysis Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of ''nodes'' (individual actors, people, or things within the network) ...

(blockmodeling, reliability and validity of network measurement), methodological research of

public opinion Public opinion, or popular opinion, is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them. In the 21st century, public opinion is widely thought to be heavily ...

, analysis of scientific networks. She is a professor emeritus at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

Early life and education

Ferligoj obtained her B.S. in

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

in 1971, and her M.S. in

operational research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

in 1979 from the

. In 1983 she obtained her Ph.D. in information science from the same university under the supervision of Professor Branislav Ivanović.

Career

Since 1972, Ferligoj was employed as assistant,

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and finally from 1994 as full

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at the Faculty of Social Sciences. In 2003–2005, she was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. In 1992–2012, she was the head of the Centre for Methodology and Informatics at the Institute of Social Sciences. In 2002–2013, she headed the graduate program on statistics, and in 2012–2020 the master program on applied

. She has been a

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there since 2020. She was a

Fulbright scholar The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the peopl ...

in 1990—1991 and visiting professor at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

(1996) and at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

(2009/10). She was awarded the title of Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia in 1997.

Academic service

Ferligoj chaired the Statistical Society of Slovenia in 1982 – 1983. She was the president of the Statistical Council of the Republic of Slovenia (2007–2021) and a member of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) (2011–2015). She was founding editor of the journal Advances in Methodology and Statistics (Metodološki zvezki) in 1987 – 2012.

Awards and honours

Ferligoj twice received awards of Statistical Society of Slovenia – in 1997, and in 2012 (Marijan Blejec award). The book Generalized Blockmodeling that she coauthored received Harrison White Outstanding Book Award by Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2007. Jointly with Vladimir Batagelj, she received Simmel award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis. In 2007 and 2008, students at the Faculty of Social Science chose her as the best professor. She received Doctor et Professor Honoris Causa at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 2010, and Golden Plaque of University of Ljubljana in 2012. She is an elected member of the European Academy of Sociology and

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. At a meeting of the Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, statisticians met and formed the agreed statues of the International Statistical ...

Selected bibliography

Ferligoj is an author of scientific papers in the international journals in the field of methodology, statistics and social network analysis, and chapters in the monographs. Her most important books include: * Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj, Anuška Ferligoj,

Mark Granovetter Mark Sanford Granovetter (; born October 20, 1943) is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of infor ...

(Series Editor), ''Generalized Blockmodeling'' (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2004 () * Anuška Ferligoj, Rener, T., & Ule, M. 1990. ''Ženska, zasebno, politično ali" Ne vem, sem neodločena". Znanstveno in publicistično središče''. URL

* Anuška Ferligoj. 1995, 1997. ''Osnove statistike na prosojnicah. Samozaložba''. URL

* Ferligoj, A., Leskošek, K., & Kogovšek, T. 1995. ''Zanesljivost in veljavnost merjenja. Fakulteta za družbene vede''. URL

* Blaženka, K., Franc, A., Alojzija, D. U., Anuška, F., & Matjaž, O. 1994, 2001. ''Statistični terminološki slovar''. Ljubljana: Statistično društvo Slovenije: Statistični urad Republike Slovenije. URL

* Vladimir Batagelj, Anuška Ferligoj, & Žiberna, A. (Editors). ''Data Science and Classification'', Springer, 2006. URL

* Vladimir Batagelj, Patrick Doreian, Anuška Ferligoj, & Kejžar, N. 2014. ''Understanding large temporal networks and spatial networks: Exploration, pattern searching, visualization and network evolution''. John Wiley & Sons. URL

* Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj, & Anuška Ferligoj (Editors). ''Advances in Network Clustering and Blockmodeling''. John Wiley & Sons, 2020. URL

* ResearcherId
A-3675-2009

References

External links

Short biography of Prof Dr Anuška Ferligoj

Personal page of Anuška Ferligoj at the University of Ljubljana

Personal page of Anuška Ferligoj at Higher School of Economics

ResearcherID/Publons profile of Anuška Ferligoj: A-3675-2009

Scopus AuthorID of Anuška Ferligoj: 6602487611
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