Nataša Kejžar (born 14 October 1976) is a

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

for Slovenia at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a

statistician A statistician is a person who works with Theory, theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private sector, private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, a ...

. Kejžar was born 14 October 1976 in

Jesenice Jesenice (, ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru'', vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 144.) is the tenth-largest town in Slovenia, located in the traditional province of Upper C ...

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 ...

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

. Coached by Ciril Globočnik, she started swimming in 1984, finishing in 2000. As a competitor in

swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics The swimming competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney took place from 16 to 23 September 2000 at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Homebush Bay. It featured 32 events (16 male, 16 female), and a total of 954 swimmers from 150 ...

, she made a national record for her time of 1:10.44 in the heats of the 100 m breaststroke, advancing into the semifinals but not to the final. She studied at Faculty of Computer and Information Science,

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and achieved her PhD degree in Statistics in 2007. Since 2011 she has been employed at the Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics of 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 ...

. She is co-author with Douglas White,

Constantino Tsallis Constantino Tsallis (; ; born 4 November 1943) is a naturalized Brazilian physicist of Greek descent, working in Rio de Janeiro at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Brazil. Biography Tsallis was born in Greece, and grew up in Argen ...

, J. Doyne Farmer and Scott White of the social-circles network model.

Publications

"Generative Model for Feedback Networks"
in ''Physical Review E'', 016119 (2006, Douglas R. White, Nataša Kejžar,

, J. Doyne Farmer, Scott D. White)
Reviewed 2005 in Europhysicsnews 36(6):218-220
by

Stefan Thurner Stefan Thurner (born 1969) is an Austrian physicist and complexity researcher. He has been professor for Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna since 2009, external professor at the Santa Fe Institute since 2007, and guest ...

. * Douglas R. White, Nataša Kejžar, and Laurent Tambayong. 2007. Discovering Oscillatory Dynamics of City-Size Distributions in World Historical Systems. ''Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change''. Ed. by

George Modelski George Modelski was Professor of political science in the University of Washington. Modelski was a professor there from 1967 to 1995. Before working at the University of Washington, Modelski was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Adva ...

Tessaleno Devezas Tessaleno Campos Devezas (born 4 December 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born Portuguese physicist, systems theorist, and materials scientist. He is best known for his contributions to the long waves theory in socioeconomic development, t ...

, and William R. Thompson. London: Routledge.

External links

Webpage

References

1976 births Living people Slovenian female breaststroke swimmers University of Ljubljana alumni Slovenian female medley swimmers Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Slovenia Sportspeople from Jesenice, Jesenice Slovenian statisticians Women statisticians {{Slovenia-swimming-bio-stub