Lecturers

Višnja Jurić, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Višnja Jurić, PhD, was born in Split, Croatia, where she graduated from High school at 1985. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar, Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Split, majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science. She graduated in December 1990.

In 1991, she began working as a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the School of Architecture and Graphics in Split, and ten years later, in November 2000, she went to the USA to pursue postgraduate studies in Applied Mathematics at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), where she received her master’s degree in 2003 with a thesis on Asymmetric Double Weibull Distribution.

Upon completion of her master’s degree, she briefly taught at the Art Institute of California, San Francisco, and in 2004 began her doctoral studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In addition to her studies, she also taught introductory courses in statistics at the undergraduate level.

In 2006 she returned to Croatia to finish the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study in Statistics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the same year, she began working as a lecturer at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM), where she teaches mathematics and statistics courses at the undergraduate level, and the course Quantitative Methods for Managers at the graduate level. Since March 2018, she has been the lecturer of the courses Fundamentals of Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, and Fundamentals of Statistics at the Effectus University of Applied Sciences.

In addition to her work, she attended the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, where, with her mentor, Mihael Perman, PhD and co-mentor, Tomasz Kozubowski, PhD (UNR), she continued her research. She received her doctorate in June 2019 with the doctoral dissertation Asymmetric Double Weibull Distribution and its Application.