in Information Science from the same university under the supervision of Professor Branislav Ivanović. Since 1972, she was employed as Assistant, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and finally from 1994 as Full Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Research and career In 1990—1991, Anuška Ferligoj received Fulbright Award, visiting University of Pittsburgh. There she worked with Professor Patrick Doreian on research on connecting cluster and network analysis. In the 2003—2005, Anuška Ferligoj was the first female dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She organized the Centre of Methodology and Informatics at the Institute of Social Sciences (Faculty of Social Sciences), in 1992 and led it until 2012. She initiated the Graduate Program on Statistics in 2002, heading it until 2013 and the Master program on Applied Statistics in 2012, heading it up to 2020. Since 2017, she is the academic supervisor of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research of National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. Anuška Ferligoj is a fellow of the European Academy of Sociology and elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She has been a member of boards of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, International Federation of Classification Societies, and Research Committee RC33 on Logic and Methodology at the International Sociological Association. She was a member of other international and domestic societies and associations, including Classification Society of North America, Psychometric Society. She is a member of the Mathematical, Physical and Astronomical Society of Slovenia, Statistical Society of Slovenia (being its chair in 1982 – 1983), and Sociological Association of Slovenia. Anuška Ferligoj was the head of the research program Social Science Methodology, Statistics and Informatics (1998-2019) which was selected among the best research programs financed by the Slovenian Research Agency in the years 2005 and 2006. She led other research projects, coordinated ESF ECRP project (2010-2012) where co-authorship networks of Slovenian researchers were studied. She also participated at TEMPUS-JPCR project and at two COST Action projects (TD 1306 and CA 15109). 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 a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Platform for Surveys, Methods and Empirical Analysis – PUMA (2014-2019) and of the Scientific Council of the Slovenian Research Agency (2011-2015). Academic service Anuška Ferligoj organized more than 30 international