Adela Has has been employed since 2014 at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek at the Department of Quantitative Methods and Informatics in the role of assistant, and in June 2022 she was elected to the position of senior assistant in the same department. In 2022, she completed the postgraduate interuniversity interdisciplinary study Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek with a public defense of her doctoral dissertation “Energy Efficiency as a Support for the Management of Public Sector Buildings” and obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Science in the scientific discipline of Social Sciences, scientific field of Economics. She teaches several subjects at different levels of study within the alma mater. Her main area of scientific interest is predictive analytics, machine learning methods such as neural networks, decision trees in business, artificial intelligence and simulation methods. She was additionally educated in the field of machine learning and the application of machine learning methods in business through various study visits, seminars and workshops at numerous universities such as Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University Of Cincinnati, USA, Lancaster University, UK, etc. She has published over 20 scientific and professional papers. Adela Has is the recipient of a certificate of appreciation from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek for excellence in scientific work in the academic year 2019/2020 and in the year 2020/2021. From 2017 to 2021, she was a collaborator on the project “Methodological Framework for Efficient Energy Management with the Help of Intelligent Data Analytics – MERIDA” financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, led by the late prof. Marijana Zekić-Sušac, PhD. She is a member of the Croatian Operational Research Society, where she held the position of treasurer and member of the Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016, and as a member of the Society’s Organizational Committee, she participated in the organization of the International Conference on Operational Research (KOI) in 2014 and 2016. She is a member of the organizing committee of the international scientific conference “REGION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, DEVELOPMENT”. As of July 2023, she holds the position of executive editor of the magazine Ekonomski vjesnik / Econviews – Review of contemporary business, entrepreneurship and economic issues.
