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 and was trained at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research areas are data science and simulation modelling. Mirjana is the editor of several scientific journals indexed in the Scopus and WoS and has given plenary lectures at congresses, such as IEEE Systems. She has won Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence. She was among the 2% of the most-cited scientists in the world in 2020, according to the analysis of the Scopus scientific database, with the largest number of citations from the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, among 1.35% of scientists with the greatest impact of citations. The main goal of her work is to support aspiring researchers through mentoring doctoral theses and the development of their scientific careers.