Biography

Mirjana Pejić Bach is a full professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in system dynamics modelling from the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. She was trained at the MIT Sloan School of Management in system dynamics and OliviaGroup in data mining. Mirjana is the leader and collaborator of numerous projects in which she cooperates with Croatian companies and international organizations, mainly through European Union projects and the bilateral research framework. Her research areas are the strategic application of information technology in business, data science, simulation modelling, research methodology, qualitative and quantitative, especially multivariate statistics and modelling structural equations.

Mirjana is the editor of several scientific journals indexed in Scopus and WoS and has organized several conferences and given plenary lectures at congresses, such as IEEE Systems. She has won several international awards for her scientific work, such as the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. According to the Scopus scientific database, Mirjana Pejić Bach is among the 2% of the most cited scientists in 2020, 2021 and 2022. She received the most significant number of citations from the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, in which she is among the 1.35% of scientists with the most significant impact of citations. The main goal of her work is to support aspiring researchers through mentoring doctoral theses and developing their scientific careers.