Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (University of Ljubljana )
Maja is a professor of Biostatistics at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, and the head of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. She teaches both medical students and statistics students at the undergraduate, master’s, and PhD levels. She also leads the master’s program in Applied Statistics at the University of Ljubljana. In addition, she is an associate editor for Statistics in Medicine and the statistical editor of the Slovenian Medical Journal. She is also a member of the STRATOS group for survival analysis.
Her research focuses on survival analysis, with a particular interest in relative survival methodology. She studies the properties of methods traditionally used in relative survival and has contributed to the field by introducing approaches for non-parametric estimation, semi-parametric modelling, goodness-of-fit testing, and more. Her current work focuses on the use of pseudo-observations in survival analysis and the survival analysis of cancer screening programs. She is also the author of the relsurv package in R.
