Tuesday, 1 December 2020 Assoc. Prof. Lara Lusa, PhD awarded with the prestigious Zois Certificate of Recognition

On Tuesday, 1 December 2020, this year's Zois Awards and recognitions were officially delivered to researchers who have made an important contribution to the development of scientific research in the country. We are happy and honored to announce that our professor and researcher Assoc. Prof. Lara Lusa, PhD received the Zois Certificate of Recognition for important achievements, namely for scientific achievements in the development of the methodology of medical statistics.

Due to the current measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 disease, this year's ceremony was screened as a documentary with the title »Highlights of Slovenian Science in the light of award winners for outstanding achievements 2020« that contains portraits of all recipients of Zois Awards and Recognitions, the Puh Awards and the Ambassador of Science Award. It also includes speeches by the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Mr. Borut Pahor, Minister of Education, Science and Sport, Prof. Simona Kustec and the President of the Committee of the Republic of Slovenia for the Awarding of Prizes and Recognitions for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research and Development Prof. dr. Janez Plavac. The documentary is available on this link.

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Since 2016, Lara Lusa has been employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technology. Her research work is focused on the development of statistical methodology for the needs of medical statistics. This is not only an important aspect of the actual analysis of the data, but it is also crucial for the development of new approaches to statistical modeling as well as to the mathematical and statistical issues that arise in such research work. Her work thus includes the entire path from statistical modeling, assessment of the suitability of statistical models, computer implementation and substantive assessment of results in a medical context.

Bibliography of Dr. Lara Lusa comprises 75 original scientific works, of which 71 in journals included in the Web of Science collection. Her publications range from methodological statistics to biomedicine, where her work is focused in the appropriate use of statistical knowledge. During her work at the Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Ljubljana), she established a completely new field in Slovenia – the analysis of high-dimentional data.

Since 2016 she has been a member of the STRATOS (STRengthening Analytical Thinking for Observational Studies) Initiative, namely in the High-dimensional data working group (Topic group 9) and in the working group Initial data analysis, Topic group 3.

Since 2013 she has been the co-editor of the journal Advances in Statistics and Methodology, and since 2016 she is also the president of the programme committee of the international conference Applied Statistics.

We congratulate Assoc. Prof. Lara Lusa and we wish her many more research successes!