Vice-rector for International Relations

Professor Otilija Sedlak, PhD, Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica

Prof. Dr. Otilija Sedlak is a full professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica, University of Novi Sad.

She participates in teaching at undergraduate, master and doctoral studies in subjects that are close to her scientific interest: Operational research, Financial and actuarial mathematics, Mathematics for economists, Quantitative methods in economics and management, Risk management.

After completing elementary school and high school, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Subotica in 1990. She defended her Master's thesis “Game theory and fuzzy sets as a basis for business decision-making” at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade in 1995, and her doctoral thesis “Assessment of the degree of risk and decision-making in conditions of uncertainty” at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica in 2002. After her graduation, she has been employed at the Faculty from the beginning of her working career as an assistant trainee 1990-1995; assistant 1995-2002; assistant professor 2003-2008; associate professor 2008-2013; and full professor since 2013.

She held the position of Vice-Dean for Teaching and was the coordinator of the Faculty's ECTS system.

Since 2022, she has been a member of the Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance at the National Entity for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (NEAQA) and the coordinator for the field of humanities and social sciences.

Professor Sedlak is a member of scientific and professional associations in her narrow scientific field – quantitative economics: AEORS (Association of European Operational Research Society), EuROMA (European Operations and Management Association), EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network), and DOPIS (Society of Operational Researchers of Serbia).

She is an author and co-author of several textbooks, scripts, compendiums and notes. Independently or as a co-author, she published over 110 scientific and professional papers in domestic and foreign journals, as well as at scientific meetings.

Professor Sedlak participated in the following national and international projects: DUALMON (Strengthening capacities for the implementation of dual education in Montenegro higher education, 617392-EPP-1-2020-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP); ADA (Advanced Data Analytics in Business, 598829-EPP-1-2018-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP); EUROSTUDENT – FINHED (Towards Sustainable and Equitable Financing of Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, 517097-TEMPUS-1-2011-1-BA-TEMPUS-JPGR); CoNfIDEKT – Cross-border Network for Innovative Development of Economies and Knowledge Transfer HUSRB/0901/214/054 in Serbia of IPA Cross-border Co-operation Program 2010/2011; QURE – Increasing Quality of Services and Production in Cross-border Region HUSRB/1002/211/189 in Serbia of IPA Cross-border Co-operation Programme, 2012-2014; APV long-term project 2016-2019: Collaborative-informational platform in the function of innovative e-agriculture and consultancy; APV short-term project in 2015: 114-451-917/2015-02 A model for analyzing sustainable development and identifying criteria for future smart cities.