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Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematician

Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born August 19, 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose specialty is statistics and network analysis. Her specific interests include multivariate analysis (theory and application in social sciences, medicine, etc.), cluster analysis (constraints, multi-criteria clustering), social network analysis (blockmodeling, reliability and validity of network measurement), methodological research of public opinion, analysis of scientific networks. She is Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.She is a Professor Emeritus (2020) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has been employed by the Faculty of Social Sciences since 1972. In the 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 (currently – its associate member). In 2002 – 2013, she headed the Graduate Program on Statistics, and in 2012 – 2020 – the Master program on Applied Statistics. Since 2017, she is an academic supervisor of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research of National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.She is an elected member of the European Academy of Sociology and International Statistical Institute, and has been a member of boards of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, International Federation of Classification Societies, and International Sociological Association. She was an editor of the journal Advances in Methodology and Statistics (Metodološki zvezki) in 1987 – 2012. She has been a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including Methodology, Statistics in Transition, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropology and Related Sciences, Journal of Classification, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and Social Networks.She was a Fulbright scholar in 1990—1991 and visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh (1996) and at the University of Vienna (2009/10). She was awarded the title of Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia in 1997. The book Generalized Blockmodeling received Harrison White Outstanding Book Award given by Mathematical Sociology Section at the American Sociological Association. Jointly with Vladimir Batagelj, she received Simmel award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis and was a keynote speaker at the XXVI Sunbelt Social Networks Conference in 2007.